Joe and Angela’s relationship is in the dumps. The second Joe returns home from his mediocre job at a middling music conservatory, their bickering begins. Taking shoes off at the door, neglecting to pick up a bottle of wine, forgetting about plans — all seem like ripe opportunities to launch a new feud. Their married-couple’s rocky connection is further tested when Angela invites over the upstairs neighbors, Hawk (Edward Norton) and Pina (Penélope Cruz), for an impromptu dinner party. Joe doesn’t want them over in the first place, harboring resentment over their loud, late-night sex. What begins as awkward conversation and flimsy attempts at forging new friendships peels into Hawk and Pina’s real reason for coming: to invite Joe and Angela to engage in sexual extracurriculars. Read More