If you do not like the French style of movies, without too many if any technical effects, relying mostly on acting and words rather than images this film risks to bore or disappoint. Otherwise, it is certainly worth a look, because it is a sophisticated relationship story, beautifully acted, and surprisingly interesting for the whole duration of the film. The main characters superbly played by Fanny Ardant and Gerard Depardieu are a mature and well-based couple going through an apparent fidelity crisis. She decides to hire a prostitute (Emmanuelle Beart) to become the new husband's relationship - and we may debate if this is just out of curiosity, if this is some kind of perversity, the willing to test her husband or the need of control. It's only a French movie that can present what comes next, most part of the film being spent with the young woman telling in many words the erotic encounters with the husband. The triangle develops into an unexpected direction when the two women befriend beyond the expected. The personal relation as well as the social comment asks questions about who is exploiting and about the relativity of the morality in this complex triangular relation. All this in a minor tone, interesting despite the high number of words and because of the good acting. A good movie, which could have been only French.
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