L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
| 21 March 2001 (USA)
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The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.

Reviews
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
leplatypus The movie is similar to the audio commentary: it's about two buddies, Berry and Timsit, and their feelings about relationships. Thus you got only a masculine point of view here explaining that the character of Cecile is left unfortunately in shadows in spite of being her first feature! Even though Timsit has a sympathetic personality, focusing about him is a bit dull and leads to too much sexual worry. I admit that sex is love but love isn't only sex. Finally, Berry as a first time director is better at shooting families reunion.However, the best moment for me was their big wheel ride in Tuileries Garden because i did it and unlike them, i was terrified and frozen by the vertigo.
bramoc I do not agree with the first writer, I find this is a brilliant movie! If you don't understand the frustrations/problems of the main character, you might not like this film. But when you do, this film is full of moments that make you smile and sometimes it makes you laugh out loud. About the fact that woman are not portrait-ed as human beings (as the first writer wrote)..., well, a lot of men sometimes have thoughts/manners as the main character. So it's very human behavior! Sorry ladies! But that's not such a big issue in this movie; I just wanted to take away the stamp off this movie it being offensive towards woman, because it's not so. It's just a sort of 'fairytale' in today's world. And after all: it's a movie, so don't take it all to serious! I recommend it you see it!Bramoc
cayenne-3 It is very difficult for me to understand the aim of this movie : it is not a comedy because it is rarely funny, it is not an intellectual movie because it lacks the depth to be taken at the second degree, and it is not a drama because one can hardly feel sorry for the characters... In addition to that, the characters, the dialogs and the situations are so exaggerated and painfully artificial that it is impossible to adhere to the story... All the male characters have only one thing in mind : women and sex. And all women are merely sexual objects (the main character, the neighbor, the prostitutes, etc. - they even depicted the boss as a lesbian character) whose final role is to be a mother... Ridiculous and misogynous...
claire.amandry Fist-time director Richard Berry delivers here a comedy that not only is not funny but also misogynist, as during 90 minutes women are considered as mere sexual objects and not human creatures. Such a subject could have been treated in a light, sparkling way but the dialogues are so vulgar and dumb that one really feels sorry for the actors involved in it. Definitely a bad movie.