Electric Love

By: Amos Lassen

"Electric Love"
Four Couples
Amos Lassen

Aaron Fradkin looks at how four coupes in Los Angeles navigate the dating scene via apps like Tinder and Grinder, where the options are plenty, but aren't always the best material. Music video director Adam, (Zachary Mooren) spends his free time swiping left and right, trying to find the right girl... or at least a girl for right now. After connecting with Emma (Mia Serafino), an up-and-coming photographer, the two meet up and discover there's an immediate connection. As they spend more and more time together, we meet their friends and roommates as they come in and out of the story. Adam's best friend Greg (Matt Bush) delivers pizza while cruising Grinder and his roommate, Dave (Byrne Owens) spends his time video talking to his long-distance girlfriend (Sharon Pierre-Louis).
Fradkin cowrote the film with Victoria Fratz and they both have a great sense of dialogue. Mooren and Serafino have terrific chemistry and they could have easily carried the entire film. They are supported by a charming cast.

People who are dating/rendezvousing in the modern technological age have lots of tools at their disposal: Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, and those are only three of the apps talked about at length in popular culture. The majority of the story is focused on Emma and Adam and how they find each other after a series of dates gone wrong. They spend a night together and quickly begin a relationship. Over the next few weeks, they have to find ways to make their blossoming courtship work as long as life, work, jealousies, and longtime friendships don't get in their way. Through their various connections with roommates, friends, and former Tinder dates, we experience different types of people and relationships throughout the story.

This is a sweet romantic comedy with witty dialogue and awkward situations that come out of dates-gone-wrong and even some dates-gone-right. As some of these people struggle through their insecurities, whether they stem from an unrequited 'I love you' or irrational jealousies because of a boyfriend and his platonic female friend, we are brought into and become interested in their interconnected lives.
"Electric Love" is an extremely relatable film.