Year: 1998
Duration: 01:41:47
Directed by: Benoît Jacquot
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Martinez, Vincent Lindon
Language: French (English subs)
Country: France | Luxembourg | Belgium
Also known as: L’école de la chair, La escuela de la carne, A szenvedély iskolája, Escola da Carne, I sholi tis sarkas, Schule des Begehrens, Szkola wdzieku, The School of Flesh
Description of The School of Flesh movie: Late in the evening, Dominique went to the bar and looked at the young man behind the counter, and everything else has lost its value. It’s impossible to find such diffrent people: she is – a wealthy woman with a successful business, he – Bisexual, moonlighting as a prostitute, without a penny in his pocket, with a dark past. She let him in her luxury apartment, drove over the border and tried to tame. He left, but returned, eager to freedom and vowed to love. But once declared that he was going to get married – on a young girl …
Review of The School of Flesh film: Inspired away the dreary evening in the company of progressive youth, Dominic went with a friend in a trendy bar. They did not pursue any particular purpose, did not plan anything in advance, but this visit is completely random name was not. Just two divorced ladies deeply forty, reap the fruits of grace emancipation and equality, wanted strange. Rather strange just wanted Dominic, the second is a lady, it seems, was satisfied with her life, which is why chose to indulge in drinking. The country was also the fact that the choice fell on this bar oslavlenny in homosexual circles. Not surprisingly, the waiter at the bar was a transvestite. Not surprisingly the same, and that he worked part time pimping. However, pimping – nasty word, yes, and, moreover, vile thing, pandering – that’s what the French lediboy hunted. If you had taken the trouble to read synopsis, you already know that the main theme of the movie – love at first sight. This is certainly true. At least part of the truth. The other part is that the object of desire – Quentin is simply Alfonso and bisexual prostitute part time, or rather by a quarter, if you remember of the bartender. Cohabit with women in modest offerings, he indulges in pleasure, and sodomy to him no more than a commercial enterprise, promising financial independence and the sweet illusion of freedom.
That is the essence. This is the world. Ours, of course, but some people would be nice to pretend that the events occur at a picture of the planet. Hypocrites to watching nothing to do, because everything that happens on the screen may be deeply hurt their sense of beauty. Director of The School of Flesh, to his credit, went to work with the composure of a true master. Picture shot without all sorts of blame or focusing on specific forms of human vices. All the characters are equally hateful, but they must judge the inevitable c’est la vie. Ben Jeannot takes the most ordinary life story, pretty in its simplicity and a pressure on the viewer weights drama. After all, love is unequal unequal. So Dominic outbids Quentin as a living toy for sexual pleasures. Trying to suppress the feeling of affection by commodity-money relations, not even noticing that he was beginning to experience in relation to the youth maternal feelings. And Kant himself is not averse to show donors, arranging provocations. After all, he really believes that it will pass this unfortunate misunderstanding – sudden infatuation. If he can defend overconfidence hungry for profit male.
Observe the development of this action without a moment’s boring because the characters all the way to assert themselves at the expense of each other, pretending that it is an innocent and fun game. Tension is growing by the minute, feelings sparked bare wires and now cynically Dominique flaunts her friend before she deftly laid siege to the March Cat, brought down to the level obedient dog, barking on command and rely for happiness nap mat at the door. Forgetting how yesterday tore his soul longing, imagining that I would never meet again with Quentin. Huppert is perfectly entered into the role irrevocably aging business woman, showing a range of emotions: from seal watery eyes full of adoration, to cold contempt and hatred. Vincent Martinez, the game boy, in this sense is not so lucky. The limitations imposed by the plot dictate their will and do not let it break out of the role. Disclosure of the nature of the final and saved for all that he is this isolation, disorder and composure prudent smoothie. And more to the liking of the camera is not he, and Isabelle Huppert. You could even say that the camera admires her shamelessly. Catching every tear a close-up so that later broadcast viewer emotions directly, without spilling a drop on the way.
Unfortunately, not everything is so rosy. Almost complete lack of intrigue film The School of Flesh is obviously not good. No, something like that, of course, the director keeps in mind. But in giving a picture of the fatal character, Jeannot too obviously trying to hide it from the viewer. Even the camera continuously shoots him casually, trying to deceive and confuse. Simply put, the scene zataskivaniya a very small and very nice little piano in the lush bush produces the opposite effect of what was intended. It must be noted positively that the picture is not rolled up in snuluyu love story, but also to deny the corruption of the general predictability of the plot as possible. As a result, the chamber did not film it begins to seem as such, tiring the audience. Director as you can, try to diversify and revitalize what is happening on the screen, but it’s too late. Does not save even filmed, finally, without all of chastity sex scene. The camera will not turn away the very exciting moment. All honest and open, and not, as it likes to show in modern cinema. No fuss muddy under a blanket or shamefaced perepihona in poluspuschennyh pants. Only static camera, only hardcore.
Last minutes of The School of Flesh are pending outcome, just to have quick. After all, what good impression formed on viewing the first hour, slowly but surely evaporate. And he’d like to keep, because it is not the same picture, which could be reviewed for fun.
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