SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

mark-palmos Mildly entertaining schlock.Really an implausible excuse for sexual power play, men are the baddies, women take revenge...The girls meet as a dancer and bartender at a seedy club where a couple of pimps who run the club try to buy their services, surprise surprise. When the girls tell the club owners to shove it, they get tossed out on the pavement. From there to scenes of them masturbating takes all of about 5 minutes (which in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing, but it all seems to be so idiotically shallow and without any reason to exist). The movie storyline and depth is a little above a porn movie level, ie, some kind of story to showcase the sex bits.I'm not sure who recommended this movie to me, I need to remember to learn to avoid their future suggestions. Low brow! Give it a miss.

Michael Cumming This film starts off relatively strong with two young girls making a pact to manipulate men in order to get ahead in life. French director Catherine Breillat's incendiary view of gender relations certainly came to mind but it soon became clear Les Choses Secrètes doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as films like À ma soeur, Anatomie de l'enfer or Romance.This film stumbles each time it tries to deviate from the norm. Its gender commentary is simplistic and its attempts at symbolism seem like an afterthought. The strong beginning becomes a mediocre middle and finally an almost laughable ending.I have absolutely no idea how this was the top film of 2002 according to the once reputable Cahiers du Cinema when the best Breillat film has ever done was 9th place (Parfait amour/1996).If you're looking for edgy gender commentary, get any of the aforementioned films by the brilliant Catherine Breillat. If you're looking for an erotic French film with nubile young women I'd highly recommend Naissance des pieuvres aka Water Lilies (2007).

Thomas_S Was this film meant to be a porn movie, an erotic movie, a drama or a fantasy movie? It apparently wants to be all but as a result of mixing it all up is neither. If this was chosen as one of the 10 best movies in France, it says more about the current quality level of French film production than about this movie, and – combined with the relatively high note on IMDb – it looks like plotting two beautiful young women and having them pose more or less undressed throughout the film has been enough to lift this movie up from what should have been a very low evaluation in my humble opinion. Not one single actor seems to have more than very basic acting skills. The characters are stereotypes and the actors unable to add life to their roles through facial expressions, voice or gestures. Even the sets are stereotypes. It is as if the movie was made to be used in film schools to teach students what needs to be done to lift a movie up from the state of just putting a sequence of images onto a film roll and to make into a real movie. The subject of young women using their bodies to gain promotion is interesting enough, and a good movie could have been made over the lines of this film. But it takes professionals to do that, and professionalism is sadly missing from beginning to end. The only comfort is the very beautiful young women, acting skills or not, but if that is the only thing one is interested in, then an erotic or porn movie will do much better. Don't waste your time with this.

kenjha A stripper and a barmaid walk into a bar...um no (although that would have made a more interesting film)...they move in together, carry on with each other, and find employment at a bank so that they can seduce men and move up in the world. There is also an orgy scene that seems to be borrowed from another movie. In the end it tries to become an art movie with something important to say. The fact is this film does not know what it wants to be when it grows up. The direction is pretentious and the acting is lame. Even the extended opening strip scene becomes tedious. Somehow this drivel was given the Best Film award by the famous French periodical Cashiers du Cinema.