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Wow! Such a good movie.

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

The first must-see film of the year.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

In Europe, we are suffering from the pressure of the Christian upbringing (which actually is a mainstream on a specific direction where the body and the sensations are not important, but only the soul). This movie finds the time to bind the both in a up to date search for meaning, a challenging endeavor, considering the deep routed structure of our culture. The puritans and the erotic movie lovers alike will see in this movie an erotic exposure with long philosophical intermissions. Beautifully crafted and bringing an equilibrium between two parts, the movie represents an inner search of Sandrine for finding the sense of living, which, as in all hero stories, is not so obvious.

OK to make this short and sweet. We meet a girl Sendrine who isn't satisfied with her boyfriend because hes always working late and both never had much sex. Then she meets a weird looking old man who is a taxi driver and seems to be interested in too much astronomy. Next she talks to this guy Greg who she cheats on and the boyfriend leaves her. Can't say I blame him because she should've called the relationship off. Also I forgot to mention, Greg is a hypnotist so I think thats the reason why she was so turned on by him. Anyway Greg brings Sendrine to his workplace and he introduces her to Mina & Sophie. Then Greg decides to hypnotize Mina and suddenly falls in love with her when really he was with Sendrine so why the hell would he jump the gun to cheat on Sendrine? Why was everything all over the place when Mina woke up, is Greg much more then that? Even Sendrine, she also jumped the wagon. She 'seemed' to fall in love with the man. However we don't see what actually happens. Ladies and gentlemen, don't waste your time on watching this movie as your head will go crackers with questions still remained!

This is not actually a film but a book of explained deep desires in mankind.The director and the writer Jean-Claude Brisseau attempts to covey the idea how internal sexual feelings are aroused.And specially he try to imply those from the character Sandrine.Sandrine wishes to explore the pleasure when she is not given the desired pleasure by her husband.Through her desired pleasure she begin to be free and yearn the bliss of life.The viewer has a question whether she found the bliss of life or not. The psychiatrist is the conveyor of À l'aventure.And specially the old man(taxi driver) gives the wanted ideas by word directly and purely.The connection of bliss of life with Indian Yoga and its phenomenons are given by him with a blend of basic western science concepts. The film is a mix of orgies,some niche concepts of Christianity and it reveals the hidden emotions of every men and women. Finally as a theme I see that the bliss of life is not always connected with physical carnal sexual pleasure but a deeper emotion.

This film attempted to be more than a skin flick by blending some more serious, philosophical elements into basically a story of sexual pursuit. It was not a bad mix - until this 'levitation' scene which I think ruined everything. We all know levitation through mental power is physically impossible so I don't understand why director Brisseau chose to bring it in.Sandrine, the protagonist in the film, was not happy with conventional sex with her boyfriend, and made an effort to seek pleasure in other ways. So over the course of the film you see beautiful women doing it, and what they did is pleasant to watch. An older man, an ex-physics professor, came into the story and he in some way played a fatherly role to Sandrine, educating her on other aspects of life including the universe and basic physics fundamentals such as the speeds of sound and light. What is good about the story is the interlacing of sex and physics appeared to work in some way too.In a nutshell I think this film is worth viewing for some of the erotic scenes, and the dialogues between Sandrine and the older, wiser friend. It could have been a much better film if other fine tuning was done and the absurd scene omitted.