Quando suo padre muore, un giovane viene introdotto dalla sua attraente e immorale madre in un mondo di edonismo e depravazione.Quando suo padre muore, un giovane viene introdotto dalla sua attraente e immorale madre in un mondo di edonismo e depravazione.Quando suo padre muore, un giovane viene introdotto dalla sua attraente e immorale madre in un mondo di edonismo e depravazione.
- Premi
- 2 candidature
- Ian
- (as Théo Hakola)
- Le femme de ménage
- (as Sylvia Johnson)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- Citazioni
Hélène, the Mother: Your father is dead. I won't lie to you anymore. You must admit that I'm worse than him. I don't deserve your respect. What do you think I've been doing every afternoon all these years? Why were you raised by your grandmother? What did you imagine? Look at me, Pierre! I'm a bitch. A slut. No one respects me. Your father knew. He allowed it. If you really love me, then admit that I'm disgusting. I want you to love me for that. For the shame I inspire in you.
- ConnessioniReferenced in Niente da nascondere (2005)
- Colonne sonoreAgnus Dei
Written by Samuel Barber
Performed by New College Choir Oxford (as Choir of New College Oxford)
The group goes to the sunny islands off Spain where Pierre falls in love with the dangerous Hansi and follows her lead in learning about his mother's strange and dangerous proclivities, sexual acts which include the involvement of young Loulou (Jean-Baptiste Montagut), a young man whom they torture for the sake of sexual satisfaction. All the while that Pierre is being introduced into Hélène's bizarre world he is conflicted by his superego in the form of the Catholic Church: he is seen reciting catechism in the desert surrounded by a silent, nude Greek chorus a la Fellini. Ultimately the 'vacation' is over and Pierre returns home with Hélène and the ultimate incestuous aspect of the Oedipus complex plays out in a completely bizarre and very dark way. To say more would destroy the impact of the ending.
Isabelle Huppert is brilliant as always, her quiet outwardly plain demeanor disguising the profoundly ill soul inside. Likewise Louis Garrel makes the fragile, gullible, needy and severely conflicted Pierre understandable: we may not agree with his choices as he wades through the strange waters of perversion, but we never lose sight of his vulnerability and passionate need to be loved. There is a lot of graphic sex in this film, but this particular story could not be told without it. Christophe Honoré manages this strange tale by letting the story take us into the realm of the unreal and he never for a moment loses our interest.
Even the music scoring is substantive, using Samuel Barber's own setting of his famous 'Adagio for Strings' for the choral 'Agnus Dei', most appropriately heard when Pierre is mentally visiting his spiritual conflicts with his corporal deeds. This is clearly not a film for everyone, but for those who admire the French cinema history of uncovering strange tales, this is a fine example. In French with English subtitles. Grady Harp
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- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 71.616 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 10.334 USD
- 15 mag 2005
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- 1.510.052 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 50 minuti
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