Things get kinkier and more surprising by the minute, with unexpected turns ranging from the intrusion of true love to a wedding reception in the form of an orgy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 7, 2023

Brisseau's filmmaking style is artful and clever ... so it's a pity when he begins to wallow in corny moralising and operatic excesses.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 26, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2005

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.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 30, 2004

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2004

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 7, 2004

Soft-core cornography.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 2, 2004

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2004

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.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 14, 2004

While some might mistake it as a bitter view of sexual politics and empowerment, it's also pretty crass filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 14, 2004

Ridiculous and pretentious and just plain nutty

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 13, 2004

... a sexy movie.

Full Review | May 3, 2004

The film is well made, well acted, cleverly written, photographed by Wilfrid Sempe as if he's a conspirer with the sexual schemers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2004

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2004

Part sexual odyssey (more a sexual inferno), part trenchant sociological exposé.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 22, 2004

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 12, 2004

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 11, 2004

With plenty of girl-on-girl action, this is the movie that photographer David Hamilton would love to make.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2004

There comes a moment in all truly terrible movies when you sense that you couldn't possibly be co-existing on the same planet as the filmmakers.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 9, 2004

The film is interesting, sexy and at times silly.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2004