It still may well-deserve consideration as a first-class exploitation flick.
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02/06/04
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Secret Things (2003)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:23
Rotten:25
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Pretentious and trashy.
Theatrical Release:Jan 2, 2004 Limited
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... [More]
Starring: Sabrina Seyvecou, Coralie Revel, Roger Mirmont, Fabrice Deville
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
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Reviews for Secret Things
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
Top CriticDeteriorates into a silly farce that lands somewhere between Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Guccione's Caligula.
03/19/04
Top CriticYou couldn't nail a particular kind of modern French film better if you tried: explicit sex, bad behavior, and shrieking pretention all in one lumpy shock-the-bourgeoisie package.
03/16/04
Top CriticPart sexual odyssey (more a sexual inferno), part trenchant sociological exposé.
04/22/04
Secret Things is definitely erotic and will appeal to prurient interests with its soft core pornography. But there is also the tale of ambition...
03/09/04
a cinematic joy ride, an outrageous jaw dropper that explores serious themes under the guise of gaudy entertainment
03/07/04
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
Imagine Emmanuelle remade on a shoestring budget or Eyes Wide Shut staged by a community theater group.
07/01/04
Top CriticThe 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 CriticJean-Claude Brisseau's film, which takes a whip to Dangerous Liaisons and even winks at Rules of the Game, gets very silly with lesbian voyeurism and liturgical music.
02/20/04
Culminates in a quasi-philosophical orgy of pretense and trashy would-be kicks that takes its rightful place among the worst movies I have ever seen.
02/13/04
A wild and woolly fable.
12/31/03
What's silly about this is all the sex and nudity. And what's exciting about it is, right, all the sex and nudity.
02/13/04
Happily and ridiculously over the top, Secret Things is a war of anarchic, sexual primitisim.
02/13/04
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.
04/09/04
Soft-core cornography.
07/02/04
Brisseau effortlessly stages the sort of ooh-la-la orgy that so clearly eluded Stanley Kubrick in Eyes Wide Shut.
02/18/04
Top CriticFor its first half, Secret Things is a tolerably silly lark ... Yet as Christophe's role expands -- and the soundtrack's classical flourishes become more strident -- the film's plausibility plummets.
01/30/04
Top CriticOne of the most sexually daring films to hit the screens in the U.S. since 'Last Tango in Paris.'
01/22/04
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