Secret Things

Starring:Aude Breusse, Blandine Bury, Patricia Candido Trinca, Lydia Chopart, Alain Couesnon, MichaÃ«l Couvreur, Fabrice Deville, Pierre Gabaston, AurÃ©lien Geneix, Arnaud Goujon, Lisa HÃ©rÃ©dia, LiÃ¨s Kidji, Boris Le Roy, Roger Mirmont, DorothÃ©e Picard, Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Olivier Soler, Viviane ThÃ©ophildÃ¨s
Studio: First Run Features
Product Type: DVD

Description

Two young women discover the power of sex to get what theywant in the male-dominated business world. Nathalie, a performance artist-stripper, instructs her new friend, the beautiful but inexperienced Sandrine, on the art of seduction. Without delay they put their skills to the test at a Parisian bank, where both rise to the top. But they meet their match in the ruthless son of the bank's president -- a vain, unbridled, power-hungry monster.

Customer Reviews:

..enjoyable sensual drama.........2007-04-15

I bought this looking for some decently explicit lesbian movies and in many ways I found this to be quite enjoyable, a believable, well acted story line with some srong characters...

The story revolves around 2 young women one sexually experienced and confident the other shy and innocent... how they use their sexuality to manipulate men... all works well but soon things turn ugly for both... there is a fair amount of nudity and lesbian sex scenes which fit in well with the story... as usual the lighting, camera angles and distance from the subject make it a little less graphic than it could have been... all in all it was enjoyable.

Power as Aphrodisiac.......2007-03-10

The anthropologist Jules Henry once wrote that "men compete for power; women compete for men." Okay, it's kind of simple minded, but this movie neatly illustrates the point Henry was trying to make. Two women, Sandrine and Nathalie, meet by accident and begin an affair. Nathalie, the older and more experienced of the two, teaches Sandrine how to seduce her way up the corporate ladder, including instructions on how to improve your fake orgasms. Treat them nice and then dump them for someone better, but do it subtly.

The first guy at this huge corporation is nothing more than target practice for Sandrine. She works through him to get at the next guy in the bigger office, a happily married winsome man with a face that has all the sympathetic appeal of road kill. Sandrine, following Nathalie's instructions, works overtime at the office and spurns all hits until one night she allows the 47-year-old boss in the bigger office to catch her in a do-it-yourself mode. The older man, Delacroix, whom I'd supposed to be dead since 1863, begins a passionate affair with the delectable young Sandrine. She teases and taunts him and makes him feel vigorous again. He can't do without her. Then after tricking him into visiting her unannounced at her home, she lets him wander in on her and Nathalie while they are making love. Only in a French movie would his first question be, "Are you in love with her"? No bothering with the fact that he's just surprised two lesbians at work in front of him. That is what we blue-blooded church-goers call "sang-froid." Anyway -- skipping some additional steps -- Sandrine finally makes it into the office of the boss's son, a young rich hunk, Christophe. The real boss doesn't count because he's old and moribund. (He's my age.) But now our story turns a bit and begins to get REALLY creepy.

It develops that Nathalie has having an affair with Christophe and has been spying for him too. And this Christophe is a match for the two plotting women, believe me. "Me, cruel? Am I more cruel than God or creation?" What a cold blooded cad. Or cod. Let's see. The film turns into what could have been a soft-core porn film from any country except that in France they do it to an oratorio by Handel. We have ordinary intercourse, but not much of that. Then there's the lesbian affair of course. And, let me think, oh yes, incest and orgies. Christophe winds up marrying Sandrine and as a special treat on their wedding night he has her dragged screaming down to a dungeon and gang banged by a bunch of strangers. All this to the tune of Bach's Missa Solemnis or something and the reassuring sight of softly billowing scarlet curtains. When Nathalie finally plugs Christophe (seven times) he begs her not to commit suicide because then she will follow him to hell and harass him for eternity. When Christophe dies on the staircase his body is enshrouded by white smoke and a hawk lands on his chest and begins tearing at the bullet holes around his heart. Don't ask.

Well, Nathalie doesn't kill herself. She goes to prison for seven years, marries her prison guard, and has a family with him. Sandrine, having lost her husband, inherits everything he had, meaning their vast estate and the huge corporation. She runs the business with the now-chastened Delacroix as her loyal assistant.

I'm not trying to hack the movie to pieces, although I have made fun of some of it. I found myself genuinely interested in where it was going -- in where it could POSSIBLY go next. And I was sincerely happy that both women wound up evidently satisfied with their secure circumstances. And I appreciated the way Sandrine presented herself. She's attractive without being beautiful. And she has a way of grooming herself and walking and posturing that makes the most of what the Intelligent Designer has given her, a trait more commonly found in Europeans than Americans, if I may make such an Olympian generalization. The story, and some of the scenes, are pretty erotic but they're done with style. There's little nudity and what there is of it isn't vulgar. I kind of liked the whole thing.

well done if un petite french.......2007-01-10

with but a couple of glaring exceptions, the dialogue was generally free from the oh so predictible narcissisic franco prattle. the story was done reasonably well, and the physical beauty of the femmes kept this viewers interest. the modern no nonsense wife liked it too.

bad drama clothed in shabby eroticism.......2006-11-05

movie about 2 women trying to con a pro at seduction. Mediocre dialogue with same acting and plot. The eroticism is wooden and tepid. Shabby treatment even for a French movie. Yuck!

It's O.K........2006-08-19

The movie was O.K. It's about two women and how they try to get to the corperate ladder. A couple of good sex seens, but nothing grafic. It's all in french, with english subtitles.

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DISC 1 : Unrated Directors Cut & Commentaries
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Contains Nudity & Sexual Situations
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ASIN: B000FT6IOI

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Anna (Gry Bay) is a young costume designer, focused on her job and wary of getting caught in romantic relationships. She has just found a new apartment, and is tempted to let her latest boyfriend, Frank (Thomas Raft), move in with her. Instead, she finds a tenant: The flamboyant, fun-loving Camilla (Eileen Daly), who shares Annas views on love and commitment. For both of them, its all about fun. Strangers without strings. No commitment, no casualties...

Choses Secretes (Original French Version)

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Entertaining dangerous liaisons

Choses Secretes (Original French Version)

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Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure. Both find positions in the office of a large bank, where bored, under-stimulated, prey are easy pickings. After making their way though several layers of executives at the bank, with destructive, and lucrative, results, they approach Christophe, scion to the bank director. What they don't know is that Christophe is a manipulative voyeur, whose last two lovers set themselves on fire when he rejected them. A connoisseur of high-class orgies, Christophe is only interested in new talent to satisfy the appetites of all whom he controls. In Christophe, the girls have found an opponent who knows all their wiles, and will challenge their simple under-class friendship with levels of jealousy and ecstasy that they have never experienced before. Will they survive?

Customer Reviews:

Entertaining dangerous liaisons.......2006-03-12

This is a surprisingly accessable and entertaining tale of sexual power politics in the mould of Dangerous Liaisons. Surprising in the sense that it starts out heading into 'Baise Moi' territory of graphic sex used by disgruntled young women to put down men and free themselves from the social constraints of their lives. The similarity is superficial, however, and there is a slightly awkward period near the start where the film seems to turn into an erotic comedy with public masturbation in a "you show yours and I'll show mine" manner.

The film quickly settles into its main plot revolving around Sandrine, her boss Delacroix in the foreground and heavily hinted sinister overtones concerning the company CEO Barnay Jr. No hard work is required of the viewer and you know exactly what is coming but there is enough humour to make this an enjoyable ride. Sandrine and Delacroix are both well played so that we feel the exhilaration and despair of their respective fates, but Barnay Junior outshines both as the bored amoral puppet master.

Secret Things (Choses secrètes) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Finland ]

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Secret Things (Choses secrètes) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Finland ]
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Manufacturer: Futurefilm
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Finland released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: French (Dolby Digital 2.0), Danish (Subtitles), English (Subtitles), Finnish (Subtitles), Norwegian (Subtitles), Swedish (Subtitles), SYNOPSIS: Two young women try to climb the corporate ladder using their feminine wiles in this erotic melodrama from French director Jean-Claude Brisseau. At the beginning of the film, Nathalie (Coralie Revel) and Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou) work in a strip club, where Nathalie wows the customers with her dancing while Sandrine tends bar. After a fight with their boss, both of them are tossed out late one night. Sandrine, a newcomer to Paris, is late paying her rent and can't go back to her apartment, so Nathalie invites her to move in with her. They become lovers, and after occupying themselves for awhile by behaving very naughtily in public, decide to conquer the working world with their powers of seduction. They both find jobs at a seemingly normal company and choose as their target a mild-mannered middle-aged bureaucrat named Delacroix (Roger Mirmont). But the company has some kinky secrets of its own, personified by the owner's son Christophe (Fabrice Deville), a decadent nihilist with a very close relationship with his sister, in whom the women might have met their match.

Pasiones Secretas (Choses Secretes) (Secret Things) [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America]

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