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Le Secret (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)
Uncut

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Virginie Wagon

Written By:
Virginie Wagon
Erick Zonca

Actors:
Anne Coesens ..... Marie
Michel Bompoil ..... François
Tony Todd ..... Bill
Quentin Rossi ..... Paul
Jacqueline Jehanneuf ..... Marie's mother
Aladin Reibel ..... Rémy
Valérie Vogt ..... Séverine
Frédéric Sauzay ..... Luc
Natalya Ermilova ..... Ana
Charlotte Pradon ..... Mélanie
Jeanne Cellard ..... Customer
Yanitz Grunhard ..... Trainer
Chantal Lambrechts ..... Marie's colleague
Christian Bobet ..... Boss
Paul Ielkin ..... Idiot boy

Synopsis:

Recalling Last Tango in Paris, Virginie Wagon directs this passionate, sexy, romantic drama about a cool professional Parisian who finds herself undone by adulterous yearns that she does not understand. Marie (Anne Coesens), who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois (Michel Bompoil) for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill (Tony Todd of Candyman fame). Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois. This film was co-written by Dreamlife of Angels director Erick Zonca.

Where the film scores rather more highly is in its depiction of the smug complacency of the contemporary French bourgeoisie. It does have a few moments of genuine poignancy; and there's also a beautifully handled scene in which Coesens uncertainly removes her dowdy Monoprix clothing with all the enthusiasm of someone being fitted for a surgical corset, while at the same time conveying jittery surges of sexual anticipation with nothing more than a half-smile and a tilt of the head. Like The Dreamlife of Angels from the same stable, this film is perhaps best considered as a fairly easy analysis of personal and social relationships (leavened with some occasional bonking).

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 13 August, 2007.

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