VARIETY REVIEW: ‘You, Me & Her’ Review: A Married Couple Admits a Plus-One in Deft Relationship Tale
Real-life spouses Dan Levy Dagerman and Selina Ringel directed and wrote a sly comedy, wherein a fractious couple find surprising balm in the form of an attractive third party.
It is the classic convention of marital comedies that couples’ attempts to spice things up with extra partners invariably end up sending them back, chastened, to each other. That’s not exactly how things work out in “You, Me & Her,” which doesn’t wag a moralizing finger at its protagonists’ flirtation with throupledom. But this pleasing collaboration between director Dan Levy Dagerman and writer-star Selina Ringel — who are duly married — ultimately proves less about sexy polyamorous hijinks than negotiating the sometimes daunting difficulties of long-term wedded domesticity.
It’s a small, slyly humorous movie that nonetheless ends on a note of more dramatic substance than you’d expect. The feature (which has been playing festivals since 2023) opens in U.S. theaters on Valentine’s Day as the first to be released utilizing Attend, a new digital and marketing platform for self-distributing makers.