I have always loved how French movie makers stretch their imaginations when it comes to dealing with ‘amour’, but using an obsession with chess to help a repressed housewife rekindle her sexuality was just a tad too far fetched for me. Helene is a chambermaid in a luxury hotel in Corsica and after a putting … Continue reading
At the end of 19th Century in Victorian England there was no such term as ‘orgasm’, well for women anyway, and probably no need for one because according to this rather absurd comic movie, they weren’t getting them anyway. Many wealthy older women would traipse to Dr Robert Dalrymple’s Consulting Rooms displaying an array of … Continue reading
Thirtysomething Thom is having another bad day. He fails to convince an Agent to give him his first break into photography, his Landlord has evicted him for not paying the rent yet again, and the illegal taxi cab he cheaply bought at an auction won’t start. It does eventually and Thom sets out into the … Continue reading
Two strangers meet in Nantes (a town in France), he is a local furniture restorer, and she a visiting fabric designer. There is an immediate attraction to each other and they end up having a romantic candlelit supper together. After dinner he drives her back to her Hotel and they are both reluctant to part … Continue reading
Childhood sweethearts Celeste and Jesse promised each other they would be together forever, but after six years of marriage they call it quits. But they never really plan to move on with their lives as Jesse just moves out to the studio in the backyard of their L.A. house and they still share all their meals together. Their … Continue reading