There are plenty of bodies in motion,
clothed and not, in Aviva.
A love story
propelled by inventive dance sequences
and uninhibited sex.
But the first bodies we see
in Boaz Yakin's atypically experimental film
are defiantly still.
Their gazes are direct,
their self-confident nakedness a rebuke,
perhaps, or a happy challenge
to run-of-the-mill repression,
setting the tone for the emotional
and physical writhing that lies ahead.
Cast entirely with dancers,
Boaz Yakin's sexually frank romantic drama
explores the male and female aspects of its central characters,
each played by both a man and a woman.