Secret (French: Choose secrÃÆ'¨tes ) is a 2002 French erotic thriller directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, starring Coralie Revel and Sabrina Seyvecou. The film is sometimes associated with the New French Extremes. Cahiers du Cinema was named the Secret Object, along with Ten by director Abbas Kiarostami, as the best film of 2002. The film was awarded the title of 'French Cineaste of the Year' at the Cannes Film Festival 2003 In 2005, director Jean-Claude Brisseau was found guilty of sexually harassing two actresses between 1999 and 2001 during an audition for the film.
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Plot
Two Parisian girls, Nathalie (Revel), a stripper at a bar, and Sandrine (Seyvecou), a bartender, conspired to climb the Paris social ladder when they started living together.
The club owner gave Sandrine an ultimatum to have sex with a paying client. Nathalie, after finishing her shift, defended and blocked Sandrine from accepting the offer, and both girls were fired. Sandrine, having fallen behind in the lease, is confident that the owner will be kicked out mainly because she is unemployed, but Nathalie offers to share her apartment with Sandrine for a while.
The girls decide to climb the corporate ladder by exploiting their sex appeal and getting a job as secretary in a banking company. Sandrine was sent to HQ, and Nathalie was sent to the Human Resources Department. They aim to seduce their boss and promote, achieved by Sandrine with co-founder Monsieur Delacroix after becoming his secretary, but many ambiguities surrounding Nathalie.
Christophe, the CEO's son and heir to the future of the banking company, is very handsome and the ultimate target for both girls to seduce, but his reputation is very bad. After passing many women, Christophe is cruel and seemingly unemotional but has the ability to seduce any woman and make her fall in love with her. This resulted in the previous romance ending in their suicide. But Sandrine is still determined to conquer it even after receiving a warning from Nathalie.
Over time, Sandrine, through absenteeism and less attention to Delacroix, convinced her that Nathalie be transferred to her office as a secretary's assistant to Sandrine because she felt overworked. The result was a threesome that night at the office that Christophe and his sister interfered with. After discreet discipline, Delacroix will retain his post and continue working for the company, but, officially, on paper (which Christophe only has access to) he has been fired.
After the situation, Christophe took Nathalie and Sandrine to a private restaurant, where she revealed that Nathalie had become Christophe's secret lover while the girls had worked in the bank. After showing off his wealth, Christophe reveals his plan: to marry Sandrine with a formal marriage to convince his dying father that he is a reformed man and thus will gain complete control of the corporation. Sandrine will be divorced after a healthy settlement. Nathalie, angry at the situation, did not refuse in the hope that Christophe loved her, even following her orders for her and Sandrine to go to the toilet and start having sex before waiting for Christophe to turn her into a threesome.
Later, Sandrine was invited to Christophe's castle to have dinner with her and her sister in three disgusting people. That night was disturbed by Nathalie, who still believed that Christophe loved her far down. After Christophe rejected him and threw stones at him, Nathalie surrendered to the madness. This marriage was done later in the day and during the wedding night, Sandrine and Christophe walked together through her chauffeur during the party. The guard escorted him to the basement after hearing that Christophe's father had died and left him all over the company. There, he was raped by the guests while Christophe and his sister had sexual intercourse.
Later in the evening when the show was over, Sandrine was thrown in front of the main door and was told by Christophe that the divorce could take several weeks. Nathalie appears with a gas-filled jerry can that she pours herself and holds lighter in the air. Christophe refused him only to be shot several times by Nathalie in his anger. He was imprisoned and Sandrine became the heir to the company. Years later when Sandrine entered her limousine on the streets of Paris, she recognized Nathalie, who has since married a prison warden and had a child. Nathalie and Sandrine walked to each other and kissed each other on the cheek.
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Cast
- Coralie Revel as Nathalie
- Sabrina Seyvecou as Sandrine
- Roger Mirmont as Delacroix
- Fabrice Deville as Christophe
- Blandine Bury as Chorlotte
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes, the review gatherer, reported that 49% of the 49 critics surveyed gave the film a positive review; the average score is 5.6/10. Lisa Nesselson of Variety writes that this movie can be enjoyed by scholars and movie fans of exploits, which she says might be looking for a movie like this when they watch Eyes Wide Shut . Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated a 3/4 star and wrote that it was "a rare item today: An erotic film is made well enough to keep us interested", even though he says it's not a movie best of the year. Dave Kehr of The New York Times compared the film's negativity negatively to Rohmer's work and said it was more interested in titillation than intellectualism; However, he wrote, "But no one denies the strange imagination of Mr. Brisseau and the personal conviction he brings to him." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle rated 2/4 stars and wrote that the focus of excessive movies on sex "turns off viewers" but never becomes boring. Allison Benedikt of the Chicago Tribune rated it 2/4 stars and called it "a porno garbage that pretends to be deep". Benedict concluded that repeated sex scenes caused the movie to be boring despite "disturbing and exciting times". Ty Burr of The Boston Globe writes that the movie "suggests the place where desire, fear, pleasure, and strength intersect, but never really run there".
References
External links
- Secret Things on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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