Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Wordiezett So much average

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

kenzie-268-476474 This film was horribly disappointing. I can't believe I actually sat through the full film. What bothered me the most about this film was that it was so clearly written by a man, for men. The director tried to push the idea that these two female characters were lovers through sexual scenes, but denied them any substantial character development or even dialog between each other. Their relationship was almost entirely for the male gaze. It is made known that the main character Sandrine had always been unhappy with her male partners and that she was quite obviously lesbian, but halfway through the film she was gushing over her sadistic boss. Just a few conversations with this creepy man and they were both LITERALLY ready to kill themselves, take a disgusting amount of abuse, and even forgive rape. At the beginning of the film, you get the impression of two strong female characters taking control of their lives and finding empowerment through their own sexuality, but that couldn't be farther from the truth. I am willing to forgive the horrible lines, unnecessary incest, and blatantly obvious foreshadowing, but the inconsistencies were unforgivable.

dbborroughs Two women who work at a bar decide to use sex to get what they want from life. While they become very successful, things also end up taking a turn or two that they didn't expect. I liked this very adult movie very much. This is a very sexy movie with some very likable women as the leads. The prospect of using sex as a means to an end is of course a way of life for many people, both male and female, and here we see it in action. Watching it I was surprised by how the film didn't go in the directions I thought it would and was pleased that it wasn't this dark noirish tale that cover art seemed to imply.Actually as I was watching the film I was struck by how much this film reminded me of Exterminating Angels, another off beat, but in a good way, French film about a director trying to get the right women to perform sexually for a film he was doing. When I checked IMDb after watching Secret Things I found that the director for both films was the same and that the process of making Secret Things was the inspiration for Exterminating Angels. I can't wait to have a double feature. A great deal of nudity and sexual activity, so keep this away from the kids. Recommended.

writers_reign Now we know why Godard and Truffaut made such crud movies. They began as critics on Cahiers du Cinema and that magazine rated THIS piece of cheese one of the Best 10 films of 2002. It is to laugh. Let me pitch a story to you. Two young girls in Paris, passable looking but nothing to write home about. One strips and openly masturbates for customers at a strip club, the other tends bar there. When one refuses to put out after the show the owner fires them both. The bartender moves in with the stripper, who encourages her to shed her inhibitions. Then a light bulb ignites over the stripper's head. 'Why don't we sleep our way to the top'. This is SO original. I shudder to think how far Nell Gywnne or Lola Montez might have gone if they'd have come up with an idea like this. Thing is, that's IT. End of story. Okay, there are always going to be youngsters who have never seen a naked girl masturbating but in the 21st century they are going to be few and far between. If you like sub-Catherine Breillat then run, don't walk to the box office. Otherwise check out Matrix #9.

cs100 You gotta love the French. They may not know how to get rid of megalomaniac dictators (Hitler, Hussein), and few people outside the borders of La Republique would invest their hard-earned cash in a French automobile. But when it comes to sex-tinged business scandals, like the ELF `whore of the republic' saga, the French make the boys at Enron seem like virginal choirboys. And, oh yes, the French do know how to make a `thinking man's' erotic movie, as `Choses Secretes' (in French, with English subtitles) proves. And their wine and cheese isn't half bad, either.For those in the mood for a thoroughly adult (i.e. aimed at mature audiences) film, that probes the dark side of human behavior and features plenty of beautiful women behaving naughtily, `Choses Secretes' does not disappoint. In the film, two young women, one already experienced in using her body for fun and profit, find quality jobs hard to come by in present-day Paris, so they decide to try the time-honored method of sexually manipulating men in order to rise to the top (at one point in the film, one of the minor characters mentions Madonna, who is accused of having done exactly this in the music business). This requires them to put their human feelings of love, friendship, kindness, loyalty, and decency on hold, which ends up being a huge struggle for them. However, one person in the film, the CEO of the company they go to work for, who is due to inherit the firm from his aging father, apparently has mastered the emotional distance required to be a truly manipulative, evil powermonger (`Choses Secretes' was filmed in 2002, and the revelations that came out in 2003 about Saddam Hussein's sons are chillingly close to this character). So, `Choses Secretes' does have a significant story to tell.The film is well cast, and the three leads all give strong performances. From the moment we meet the two female leads, it is obvious from the looks in their faces that one of them is the more experienced, who will slowly lead the other into debauchery. The scenes by which the two women learn to use and enjoy their bodies are amusing, as are the portrayals of life in a Parisian office. The final third of the movie, however, is appropriately dark and sinister, and there is a sub-theme of incest that may bother some viewers (I had to remind myself that, after all, it is only a movie). Prudes, however, will have exited the theatre long before this sub-theme is reached. But those in the mood for an adult French cinematic experience containing both eye candy and food for thought won't be disappointed.