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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Cedric Kahn
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Alberto Moravia (novel)
Directed by: Cedric Kahn
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 15, 1999
DVD: December 19, 2000
Running Time: 120 minutes, Color
Origin: France
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin, Arielle Dombasle, and Robert Kramer
A fortysomething, recently separated philosophy professor (Berling) encounters the former model of a painter who apparently died while having intercourse with her. The professor begins having sex with the teenage girl on a daily basis and becomes obsessed with her.
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What The Critics Said
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San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
There's enough sexual manic depression to justify house calls from Dr. Laura.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Kahn manages to turn his feast of flesh, navel-gazing talk and self-destructive jealousy into a thoughtful reflection on the subject.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Elliott Stein
The plump, Rubenesque Guillemin steals the show. Her understated simplicity is her strength -- this is one of the major movie debuts of recent years.
Read Full Review >New York Post Hannah Brown
Talky, overlong and, ultimately, just as predictable and repetitive as the maddening relationship it depicts.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Overly schematic, not always believable in its crude sexual mechanics and ultimately unsensual. But it lays out the laws of erotic attraction with a brutal directness that is downright scary.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Energetic acting and directing make it a less exasperating experience than it might have been.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It's a movie about an idiot in the grip of something common place. He starts off as a garden-variety idiot and progresses to a big idiot.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
As exasperating as it is insightful. The film ultimately falters, though, because it's so resolutely old-fashioned.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
David R. gave it a9:
Brilliant adaptation of Moravia, with a French twist.
