Matt & Khym: Better Than Ever
Matt & Khym: Better Than Ever is the latest entry in Tony Comstock’s popular series of documentary-style films featuring real couples, and it’s a sweet, rather charming outing. Matt and Khym met when she was fresh out of high school and he was just a few years older, and they’ve been together ever since, for going on twenty years. About half of the film is footage of them, sitting together on a couch, talking about how they met and their lives together. It’s a little like the footage of couples reminiscing about their first meetings in When Harry Met Sally — the similarity is strong enough that it was a little disconcerting at first to see her going down on him or him fingering her during the brief intercut snippets of them having sex together.
Their story is at once individual and easy to relate to; they seem like nice people who have had some of the usual (and some unusual) ups-and-downs in their lives, but never stopped loving each other, and never stopped lusting after each other, either, which is almost more impressive. The filmmaker is very unobtrusive, only asking a question or two, and never appearing on screen, so the focus remains squarely on the couple. A long scene of them making love follows the conversation, and it’s a sweet, tender affair (and, from a purely prurient point of view, she has a hot little body, and he’s kept in shape, too). They clearly know each other up, down, and sideways, and know just how to make one another happy. The film returns to them afterward, and they explain that they agreed to take part in this project because they want to show people that it’s possible to have a long relationship and remain sexually and personally passionate about your partner. It’s a good message, and they’re living proof.
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