Cockles and Muscles (2005)
(Crustacés et coquillages)
Country: FR
Technical: col 94m
Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Cast: Valéria Bruni Tedeschi, Gilbert Melki, Jean-Marc Barr, Jacques Bonnaffé
Synopsis:
A couple holiday in the inherited villa of one of them on the French Riviera, with their teenage children in tow. The girl, aggressively mature in her sex, proceeds to shoot off with her boyfriend on his motorcycle; the younger son greets his pal at the station and explores his vacillating sexual proclivities, most often in the shower. Meanwhile the couple themselves are visited by their own indiscretions and the stage is set for a radical realignment of relationships.
Review:
At times creakily reminiscent of François Ozon (but I may be doing the directors a disservice here, not familiar with their other work), this sexy romp skips along inconsequentially enough for a time, up to the point where the son's experiment with cottaging leads to a new element in the mix and the father's own straightness seems in doubt. The musical numbers are frankly an embarrassing irrelevance but the movie provides ample entertainment for the broadminded.
(Crustacés et coquillages)
Country: FR
Technical: col 94m
Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Cast: Valéria Bruni Tedeschi, Gilbert Melki, Jean-Marc Barr, Jacques Bonnaffé
Synopsis:
A couple holiday in the inherited villa of one of them on the French Riviera, with their teenage children in tow. The girl, aggressively mature in her sex, proceeds to shoot off with her boyfriend on his motorcycle; the younger son greets his pal at the station and explores his vacillating sexual proclivities, most often in the shower. Meanwhile the couple themselves are visited by their own indiscretions and the stage is set for a radical realignment of relationships.
Review:
At times creakily reminiscent of François Ozon (but I may be doing the directors a disservice here, not familiar with their other work), this sexy romp skips along inconsequentially enough for a time, up to the point where the son's experiment with cottaging leads to a new element in the mix and the father's own straightness seems in doubt. The musical numbers are frankly an embarrassing irrelevance but the movie provides ample entertainment for the broadminded.
(Crustacés et coquillages)
Country: FR
Technical: col 94m
Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Cast: Valéria Bruni Tedeschi, Gilbert Melki, Jean-Marc Barr, Jacques Bonnaffé
Synopsis:
A couple holiday in the inherited villa of one of them on the French Riviera, with their teenage children in tow. The girl, aggressively mature in her sex, proceeds to shoot off with her boyfriend on his motorcycle; the younger son greets his pal at the station and explores his vacillating sexual proclivities, most often in the shower. Meanwhile the couple themselves are visited by their own indiscretions and the stage is set for a radical realignment of relationships.
Review:
At times creakily reminiscent of François Ozon (but I may be doing the directors a disservice here, not familiar with their other work), this sexy romp skips along inconsequentially enough for a time, up to the point where the son's experiment with cottaging leads to a new element in the mix and the father's own straightness seems in doubt. The musical numbers are frankly an embarrassing irrelevance but the movie provides ample entertainment for the broadminded.