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Secret Things (2003)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:8
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.3/10
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
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Top CriticImagine Emmanuelle remade on a shoestring budget or Eyes Wide Shut staged by a community theater group.
07/01/04
Top CriticA 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
Top CriticWhile some might mistake it as a bitter view of sexual politics and empowerment, it's also pretty crass filmmaking.
05/14/04
Top Critic... a sexy movie.
05/03/04
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 CriticEither 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 Critic[The movie] collapses under the weight of its own artsiness.
02/26/04
Top CriticA sweetly seductive entertainment.
02/26/04
Top CriticAn artistically ambitious exercise that enables audiences to be simultaneously teased erotically and intellectually.
02/20/04
Top CriticSecond-rate soft-core porn with art-house pretentions.
02/20/04
Top CriticJean-Claude Brisseau's French film is a frequently overheated, often delirious fantasy about two Parisiennes in their early 20's.
02/19/04
Top CriticFor those who like their erotic melodramas frosty and lavish, Secret Things is as elaborately whipped up as such treats ever get.
02/19/04
Top CriticBrisseau effortlessly stages the sort of ooh-la-la orgy that so clearly eluded Stanley Kubrick in Eyes Wide Shut.
02/18/04
Top CriticIt plays rather like a humorless version of Barbara Stanwyck's tongue-in-cheek classic, Baby Face.
02/06/04
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 CriticGets more operatically farcical (most of it unintentionally so) by the minute.
01/30/04
Top CriticMerciless and darkly funny.
01/02/04
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