It's curious, even ironic, how this French film has sparked such a heated controversy due to its violence and explicit sex. It seems as though no one has noticed that, unlike many films, this one doesn't glorify violence at all; it simply shows what becomes inevitable in the idiosyncrasies of its two protagonists. Both Nadine (Karen Lancaume AKA Ka

François is a film director who seems determined to pursue a pretentious film project that springs up unbidden, and with which he becomes obsessed from the start: he wants to make a film about female orgasms, the "reality" surrounding them, and the transgression of showing them uncensored. To this end, he's decided to avoid hiring porn stars, becau

Angela is the paradigm of free and liberated femininity. An altruistic, intellectual, and sexually independent woman, she chooses her partners the same way she selects a book from her shelf: with curiosity and delicacy. She is an illegal immigrant living in an attic in the heart of Los Angeles, a Nicaraguan woman with a violent past she is trying t

Marta (Uzbek beauty Anna Khimskaia, perhaps the most gorgeous model Brass has worked with in his recent softcore phase) is a bored wife neglected by her husband, Leon, a lazy, conservative literary editor who, after six months of marriage, doesn't seem to give much thought to the need to continue cultivating passion. His conception of sex clashes h

Diana (Roman beauty Claudia Koll) has been happily married to her husband Paolo (a mediocre Paolo Lanza) for five years. Although at first glance it might seem like a happy marriage, Diana repeatedly displays an uncontrollable desire for other men. Paolo isn't sure yet, but judging by the erotic stories Diana shares with him daily in the privacy of

Anna (a beautiful and melancholic Florence Guérin) is a wife abandoned by a husband fully dedicated to his work as a lawyer. The family, which also includes his mother (an unpleasant old woman who only knows how to speak reproachfully), is well-off and has a maid named Angela (the sexy Trine Michelsen) who, little by little, gains Anna's trust by a