Secret Things (2003)

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... 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 and soon they dare each other into a lesbian affair and masturbate publicly. They decide to make their new sexual exploits work for them, getting office jobs and sleeping their way up the corporate ladder. Nathalie counsels Sandrine in her seduction of the hardworking head of the firm (Roger Mirmont), but then Nathalie makes the mistake of falling for the handsome CEO (Fabrice Deville), an amoral hedonist who seduces the young women of the company and then drives them to suicide. He also likes to stage massive orgies and sleep with his own sister (Blandine Bury). From there on in, it just gets wilder, replete with a lurking specter of death and her pet hawk. While orgasmic writhing is plentiful, Brisseau's straightforward narrative keeps things focused. The film is as much homage to the pre-code Hollywood films of yore as it is an exercise in steamy Franco-erotica. A strong score of classical music by Bach, Vivaldi, and others makes SECRET THINGS what Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT was trying to be, a depiction of how the velocity of sex can tear the trappings of contemporary urban life clear away, exposing the timeless passion for destruction at the human core. [More]

Starring: Sabrina Seyvecou, Coralie Revel, Roger Mirmont, Fabrice Deville

Starring: Sabrina Seyvecou, Coralie Revel, Roger Mirmont, Fabrice Deville, Blandine Buryas

Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau

Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Producer: Jean-Francois Geneix, Jean-Claude Brisseau
Studio: First Run Features

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