This tale of a pair of women who tire of their partners and arrange sex with strangers is not sexy enough for erotica and not real enough to be drama
Chloé Robichaud’s new film is a remake of the 1970 French-Canadian sex comedy of the same name (the French title is Deux Femmes en Or) and it hasn’t travelled well: silly, clumsy and dated.
Florence (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman) and Violette (Laurence Leboeuf) are two unsatisfied women who live next door to each other in a bland suburban condo development. Violette has just had a baby, and her husband Benoît (Félix Moati) is always away, supposedly on business, but actually having hotel-room assignations with a woman called Eli, played by Juliette Gariépy – an actress with cult status for her chilling lead performance in the psychological thriller Red Rooms. As for Florence, she has no children but is also unhappy with her bland sexless relationship with David (Mani Soleymanlou); she comes off her antidepressants to let her long-repressed wild side run free. Continue reading…
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