Wanderlust stars Toni Collette, 45, as Joy and Steven Mackintosh, 51, as Alan - a loving couple exploring an open relationship to revive their
lustless marriage.
Thus far the narrator serves as point of perspective, as
lustless (and seemingly listless) voyeur, but one who requires intimacy, a human knowingness.
It bespeaks an interminable
lustless life in a very reliable Serta.
``It would be one thing if these
lustless men and women were married to each other,'' says Davis.
But even more importantly it took us under the skin of local people in a way that this frequently
lustless piece from April de Angelis fails to do.
In this regard Trilling is moved to comment: "His [Henry Crawford's) adultery with Maria Bertram is not only loveless but
lustless; so far from being forgivable as passion, a free expression of selfhood, it is merely a role undertaken, a part played as the plot requires" (1972, 78).