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Secret Things
First Run Features
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Coralie Revel,
Sabrina Seyvecou,
Roger Mirmont,
Fabrice Deville,
Blandine Bury,
Olivier Soler,
Viviane Théophildès,
and
Dorothée Picard
After they are both fired, two penniless but shapely young French women set out to climb the social ladder by manipulating men.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Foreign
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jean-Claude Brisseau
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jean-Claude Brisseau
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 23, 2004
Theatrical: January 2, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
115 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Choses Secrètes"

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Though his work has been little seen outside of France, writer-director Jean-Claude Brisseau's reputation as one of the most terribles of his country's filmmaking enfants precedes him. This 2002 film offers ample evidence as to why.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
The result is both merciless and darkly funny.

80
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
There's plenty for both the eyes and intellect to groove over in Secret Things, a taut, juicy, low-key feast of sexual and office politics filtered through helmer Jean-Claude Brisseau's customary blend of expedient formality and all-stops-out baroque behavior.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The sensationalistic beginning and needless mumbo-jumbo ending aside, this is a female buddy film with bite.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A rare item these days: An erotic film made well enough to keep us interested. It's about beautiful people, has a lot of nudity, and the sex is as explicit as possible this side of porno.

70
The New York Times
Dave Kehr
There is no denying the force of Mr. Brisseau's bizarre imagination and the personal conviction he brings to it.

70
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Not a great movie, but its daring and seriousness, its refusal to take refuge in the sort of irony that diminishes whatever it touches, its willingness to risk ludicrousness, may be elements that are necessary to achieve greatness.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Cobbled together from borrowed parts, Jean-Claude Brisseau's Secret Things makes a fearsome Frankenstein monster out of other movies, yet the influences are so thoroughly digested that they come out seeming wholly original.

70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
I still can't decide whether it's a masterpiece of sexual provocation or just a really classy stroke film.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It would be hard to mount a straight-faced defense of Brisseau's feverish moral tale, complete with a lurking angel of death, but the carnal machinations are hugely entertaining -- particularly if you like your skin with a bracing sermon chaser.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
While visually stylish and thematically ambitious, Secret Things is ultimately more preposterous than provocative, its vague explorations of sexual and class struggle failing to coalesce in a coherent manner.

60
Empire
David Parkinson
Stylish and gripping at times, this wry very-French gender satire is definitetly entertaining but falls down a little in the third act.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Skids into absurdity, but it never quite gets boring. Movies like this rarely are.

50
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
Trashy porno pretending to be deep.

50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Neil LaBute on his worst day couldn't devise a scenario so primitive in its psychology and predictable in its sense of sin.

40
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
A tolerably silly lark, decorated with lots of tasteful (and exclusively female) nudity. Yet as Christophe's role expands -- and the soundtrack's classical flourishes become more strident -- the film's plausibility plummets.

38
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Hints at a place where desire, fear, pleasure, and power all intersect, but it never actually goes there.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It’s Brisseau's penchant for the flamboyantly perverse and the perversely flamboyant, however, that might have been best left secret.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Gets more operatically farcical (most of it unintentionally so) by the minute.

25
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Silly and pointless film.


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