Desire

2011 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Romance

63
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 9786 9.8K

france sexuality sexual fantasy unfaithfulness promiscuity prostitution

Plot summary

In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cécile, a character who symbolizes desire.

Director

Laurent Bouhnik Photo
Laurent Bouhnik

Top cast

Déborah Révy Photo
Déborah Révy as Cécile
Hélène Zimmer Photo
Hélène Zimmer as Alice / Matt's girlfriend
Gowan Didi Photo
Gowan Didi as Matt / Alice's boyfriend
Leticia Bellushi Photo
Leticia Bellushi as Sonia
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
944.9 MB
1280*714
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
25 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 23
1.71 GB
1920*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
25 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 40

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by romath 6 / 10

A movie about connection and disconnection and love

Wow, other reviewers see this as pornography. Take another look. It's about connection and disconnection in French society, in which sex and discussions about sex are used as a central vehicle for showing relations between men and women in French society (or at least younger ones). Note that the director never shows anything above the waist of the nude women in the shower chattering away about sex and men. Note that all the characters are missing each other needs and hence at odds and frustrated. Note the scene in the plaza where everyone is self-absorbed. Note that the author starts the movie with a message that he still believes love is possible. Where the movie fails most is not in its failure to do more than vaguely allude to the background situation - unemployment and a shipyard strike. Why those are even there is never clarified. Rather, it was the director's inability to bring the story to completion without implanting an implausibly happy ending that left me wondering what was the point of it all. If French social relations are pretty much the same as they were 25 years ago, then the director's gotten quite a bit right. Unfortunately, he didn't know where to go with it. That's why, in spite of the good acting (for the most part), I gave it only six stars.
Reviewed by bonzybino 6 / 10

erotica at its dramatic best..

Its hard to make a drama erotic, the more complex if its the other way around. Q is an erotica at its dramatic best, a distant topper in the genre. The plot evolves with lives of some characters revolving around Cecile, the protagonist in the drama, and how she change their lives. Too much subtle the screenplay at times, that we tend to lose it quite easily. And thankfully, the erotic scenes never shadows the feel of the movie which makes it engaging throughout.The creditable performances from the cast imprints the quality of the drama, and quite deceitfully we get obsessed with the protagonist played by the gorgeous Déborah Révy - a rare breed of voluptuousness and acting prowess. The movie for all its sensuousness should be indebted to some unseen good locale, complemented well by good cinematography. A must stop port this for the erotica lovers, and a good watch for other movie goers. Its an erotica at its dramatic best. 6.5/10
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