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Secret Things (2003)
48 %
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Reviews Counted: 48
Fresh: 23
Rotten:25
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus: Pretentious and trashy.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Jean-Claude Brisseau's film is a heady melange of old-fashioned office seduction and Sadean orgy-mongering done up with Gallic flair. Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou) and Nathalie (Coralie Revel) meet while being fired from a strip club... [More]
Starring: Sabrina Seyvecou, Coralie Revel, Roger Mirmont, Fabrice Deville
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Reviews for Secret Things
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Brisseau's filmmaking style is artful and clever ... so it's a pity when he begins to wallow in corny moralising and operatic excesses.
08/26/05
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07/19/05
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08/14/08
Top Critic I wouldn't entirely dismiss it, but I would be reluctant to say I found too much about it that warmed my heart and appeased my soul.
11/30/04
Brisseau is getting at the heart of human nature and the price of ambition, and he's cutting with a sharp knife, revealing all of its entrails whether you like it or not
11/09/04
Imagine Emmanuelle remade on a shoestring budget or Eyes Wide Shut staged by a community theater group.
07/01/04
A lot of sexy stuff wrapped in an obvious morality tale with some philosophical hooey and clunky symbols thrown in to justify the cheap, but undeniable, thrills.
05/14/04
While some might mistake it as a bitter view of sexual politics and empowerment, it's also pretty crass filmmaking.
05/14/04
The film is well made, well acted, cleverly written, photographed by Wilfrid Sempe as if he's a conspirer with the sexual schemers.
04/30/04
Top Critic Either a highly erotic art film trading in sex, power and morality, or a trashy porno pretending to be deep. After watching two hours of hot young French women having sex with men, each other and themselves, I have to go with the latter.
04/29/04
Part sexual odyssey (more a sexual inferno), part trenchant sociological exposé.
04/22/04
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04/16/04
Top Critic While the points it hammers home with all the subtlety of a Vivid Video girl's come-on are anything but pointless, the film begins an inexorable slide into outright silliness by the third act.
04/11/04
With plenty of girl-on-girl action, this is the movie that photographer David Hamilton would love to make.
04/09/04
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