"The Provocateur," or on my cable station "The Art of Passion," is not a very good Lifetime movie. The only thing that kept me going was that it was about art and started with a good song that I unfortunately could not find on youtube. I was able to find a few others including Sky, Sand & Sea by Alexandra Staseson and Yellow Daffodils by Malia feat. Eric Truffaz. Both of which are excellent. The movie, however, not so much.
There were several things wrong, first, the two stories the stalking and the supposedly steamy romance between the artist and the doctor--the plot jumps from one the other in a way that is jarring. They'll be talking about the stalking then the music will change to cue, the sultry part of the movie was back again. It was hard to invest in either plot.
I would not have minded that so much, but the lead actress played the role like she was a college student. Not a sophisticated emergency room physician.
At one point this was her dialog: "anyways what time is it at?" And she sounded this juvenile and unsophisticated throughout the movie. It almost seemed like an older man/younger woman movie, but he was only slightly older. Forties to her late 30s. Not a big enough age gap.
Now the artist was straight yummy! After a black tie event, they went to his place, and he changed into his artist's wear--unbuttoned shirt, casual trousers and picked up his sketch pad ...whew that was hot.
But it was all wasted tho. Thanks to his unconvincing love interest.
