Q (2011)
(Desire)
Country: FR
Technical: col/1.78:1 103m
Director: Laurent Bouhnik
Cast: Déborah Révy, Hélène Zimmer, Gowan Didi, Johnny Amaro
Synopsis:
In a Channel port suffering from the effects of economic recession, a young woman copes with the recent loss of her father by throwing herself into sexual liaisons with carefree abandon, and inciting others to do likewise.
Review:
Quite what sexual coupling has to do with the politics of employment is never made so much as implicit: the film-maker is content merely to evoke a period setting, as it happens Cherbourg, and then get down to the sex. And rarely has there been so much of it, and so graphically presented, in an above-ground production of this quality. Indeed, the film is hardly left-field enough to be arthouse (few arty shots, unpretentious text and female objectification, not least in its repeated headless shots of naked, chattering women in a changing-room); yet, at the same time, neither is it outright porno. But it does go out there, and whether conventional actors will give themselves up more and more to this kind of self-display in the future remains an open question.
(Desire)
Country: FR
Technical: col/1.78:1 103m
Director: Laurent Bouhnik
Cast: Déborah Révy, Hélène Zimmer, Gowan Didi, Johnny Amaro
Synopsis:
In a Channel port suffering from the effects of economic recession, a young woman copes with the recent loss of her father by throwing herself into sexual liaisons with carefree abandon, and inciting others to do likewise.
Review:
Quite what sexual coupling has to do with the politics of employment is never made so much as implicit: the film-maker is content merely to evoke a period setting, as it happens Cherbourg, and then get down to the sex. And rarely has there been so much of it, and so graphically presented, in an above-ground production of this quality. Indeed, the film is hardly left-field enough to be arthouse (few arty shots, unpretentious text and female objectification, not least in its repeated headless shots of naked, chattering women in a changing-room); yet, at the same time, neither is it outright porno. But it does go out there, and whether conventional actors will give themselves up more and more to this kind of self-display in the future remains an open question.
(Desire)
Country: FR
Technical: col/1.78:1 103m
Director: Laurent Bouhnik
Cast: Déborah Révy, Hélène Zimmer, Gowan Didi, Johnny Amaro
Synopsis:
In a Channel port suffering from the effects of economic recession, a young woman copes with the recent loss of her father by throwing herself into sexual liaisons with carefree abandon, and inciting others to do likewise.
Review:
Quite what sexual coupling has to do with the politics of employment is never made so much as implicit: the film-maker is content merely to evoke a period setting, as it happens Cherbourg, and then get down to the sex. And rarely has there been so much of it, and so graphically presented, in an above-ground production of this quality. Indeed, the film is hardly left-field enough to be arthouse (few arty shots, unpretentious text and female objectification, not least in its repeated headless shots of naked, chattering women in a changing-room); yet, at the same time, neither is it outright porno. But it does go out there, and whether conventional actors will give themselves up more and more to this kind of self-display in the future remains an open question.