L' Ennui

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Summary: A thought provoking film ...
Review: The plotine is basically about a philosophy professor,an unsympathethic womaniser who has the desire to do something with his life. He meets a young woman, who was a model for a painter, who died while they were having sex, he doesn't get along well with her yet he has this physical connection to her. His obsession with her and her inability to respond to him make him resort to violence, he wants to break up with her and yet he cannot. Can a person love and despise another at the same time? This film explores that premise and utilises a lot of gratuitous sex and nudity ... Overall, it was a thought provoking film and I would only recommend it to any fan of French Cinema.

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Summary: Garbage
Review: the title of the reveiw is all that needs to be said!

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Summary: Overrated movie. Sand French doesn't make it cool
Review: There's some sex in this movie. And there are people speaking French. But those two features alone don't make for great cinema. This is not a great movie.

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Summary: sexiest film
Review: Truly a masterpiece of a film.Great proformances from the cast,the plot is a very simple one professor falls a for a great body teenager;a nude model who's having pure sex with her artist he dies when having sex with c`ecilia the model. the professor finds her to be some one he like to have a sex relationship with, until he needs to stop but he can't and now he want to keep her but he can't,she like him but likes to play her games.This film is about control and getting out of control and possesion the director cedric kahn does a fantastic job with both charaters as the emotionally play games with each other.The end of this torrid story leaves you wanting more. I love this film i like to see more of them

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Summary: bizarre bizarre
Review: What a strange movie! Prix Delluc 1998, a perfectly honorable artsy French prize, but it certainly spares you no graphic sex scene, nor the buttocks of Charles Berling (a favorite actor of mine)nor the bosoms of coy Sophie Guillemin. Sometime, you think you hit upon some deeply philosophical statement, and in the next scene you are wondering if you are watching a parody of the genre. Hilarious dialogue at times (without meaning to be, I am sure..), and hilarious situations, though I am sure it is not the moviemaker's intention to create mirth. All in all, great photography, beautiful colors, realistic bits of Paris's life, and fabulous acting. But would I recommend it to a friend without a certain sense of humor? Well....

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Summary: Been there...
Review: What is it with middle aged professors anyway?[8-D] I have had the same kind of thoughts and reactions as this professor, but they remained fantasies. It took me one day of teaching, and I discovered how vulnerable these young women are. (My race didnt matter either), they just feel so indebted (guilt for something?) to us and our passion for teaching them. For me its a natural thing to do, for them it is a gift to them. Definitely a such thing as a mid-life trauma or crisis. I would have wanted this girl in the movie too, because a real crisis like this often breaks outside of the social contructs; hence the trauma or crisis. Americans truely have been spoiled by their myopic view of what men want and what is beauty, and that it matters in this particular situation. I must admit that I was struggling with some of my own inadequacies also, which are heightened at this age. Funny how even achieving ones' dreams cannot fully engage total personhood. We must be careful not to get sideswiped by what we think "success" is. Achieving ones goal is not the time to see that as "success" (its the journey not the destination-remember that saying?)and then let your guard down. Suggestion: Have human effort but not without humility through a spiritual connection that you see as greater than yourself! It has to become a practice-not a magic trick, but it helps me balance things. PS. Men often avoid the "attractive" ones because they hide their insecurities, but a young girl who needs someone to think she is attractive... an older male tells her she is... well, it happens.... a lot.