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- 1999
- R
- Digital Media Rights
- 1 h 45 m
- 1999
- R
- Digital Media Rights
- 1 h 45 m
Summary A divorcee picks up the bartender at a gay bar, and the two discover conflicted passion in each other's arms.
Directed By: Benoît Jacquot
Written By: Jacques Fieschi, Yukio Mishima, Benoît Jacquot
- 1999
- R
- Digital Media Rights
- 1 h 45 m
- 1999
- R
- Digital Media Rights
- 1 h 45 m
The School of Flesh
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Summary A divorcee picks up the bartender at a gay bar, and the two discover conflicted passion in each other's arms.
Directed By: Benoît Jacquot
Written By: Jacques Fieschi, Yukio Mishima, Benoît Jacquot
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
70
73% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
27% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
70
73% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
27% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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A handsome work of authoritative yet understated style, responsive to mood, subtleties and nuance in exploring its especially well-drawn and intelligent lovers.
Once again, as love dies and illusions crumble, this natural actress (Isabelle Huppert) shines with human fire. [26 March 1999, Friday, p.B]
This is a great film for those who share the disabused French view of grownup life, but more particularly for those who want to see one of the great actresses of her generation at the height of her powers.
I cannot imagine a Hollywood movie like this. Audiences would be baffled.
Watching this handsomely filmed, deftly edited but rather dry movie, you keep imagining the juice that a director like Pedro Almodovar could have squeezed out of the same story.
Never quite catches fire.
Talky, emphatically unsteamy psychological drama.
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Production Company
Pyramide Productions,
V.M. Productions,
La Sept Cinéma,
Les Films du Camélia,
Artémis Productions,
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF),
Samsa Film,
Canal+,
Studio Image 4,
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Fonds National de Soutien à la Production Audiovisuelle du Luxembourg,
Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep),
Eurimages
Release Date Feb 26, 1999
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating R
Tagline Lessons in Love, Sex and Betrayal
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
César Awards, France
• 1 Nomination
Acteurs à l'Écran
• 1 Nomination
