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VAFF 2009 | The People I've Slept With
The People I've Slept With
USA, 2009, 86min
DIR Quentin Lee
Angela Yang does something we've seen a lot of in mainstream films and television - she has a lot of sex, with a lot of different people. The fact that she is a young Asian-American woman hypersexual is probably meant to put a sort fresh spin on a familiar idea - that people like this - 'sluts' and 'lotharios' - will eventually have to grow up or become sad cautionary tales. In Angela's case, an unintended pregnancy sends her down the unavoidable road to maturity. She doesn't know who the daddy is, but, thanks to her penchant for making post-coital polaroid baseball cards of her conquests, she can narrow it down to 5 possible men.
Angela's BFF Gabriel thinks she should terminate, but her conservative sister Juliet convinces her that she should settle down and have that idyllic family life that grown-up's are supposed to want. Angela decides to not only keep the baby but also begins to track down the maybe daddies in order to procure DNA samples. And what will the source of the winning sample get? A dream wedding and a beautiful family. That's the plan, anyway.
There's 5-Second Guy. 'Nuff said. There's Nice-But-Boring Guy who's incidentally hung like a horse but is needy in that extreme movie comedy way. One likely candidate ends up being a dead-end (and the father of several other babies-to-be). At one point, we even learn that Angela drunk-f**ked her own GAY best friend. Though having slept with most of the men on Angela's list (and without protection) would give anyone in real life serious pause, this is a romantic comedy - and one that would never be so gauche as to cast judgement on its heroine. Which leads us to bachelor #5 - hot, rich, great cook and up-and-coming politician Jefferson. Angela immediately sets about reeling this big, almost too-perfect fish, which really is her only plausible option.
There's not much about The People I've Slept With that most people will find fresh - beyond, perhaps, the fact that it centres around non-white actors. Even the gay bff side story about giving up club hook-up's and settling down a nice young Canadian boy is pretty familiar. That said, the cast, lead by Karin Anna Cheung, Wilson Cruz (yup, Rickie from My So-Called Life) and Archie Kao (CSI) is appealing and the film has a breezy, upbeat quality that can be hard to resist.
Preceded by Geoffrey Quan's The Other Way Round and Rumana Huq's The Call Center
Schema Magazine's coverage of VAFF 2009 is sponsored in part by the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival
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