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Secret Things(Choses secrètes)

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France · 2002
1h 55m
Director Jean-Claude Brisseau
Starring Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Roger Miremont, Fabrice Deville
Genre Drama

Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris: street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage and pleasure. When they encounter Christophe, a cunning voyeur, their world is turned upside down. Will they survive his manipulation?

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Washington Post by

A tolerably silly lark, decorated with lots of tasteful (and exclusively female) nudity. Yet as Christophe's role expands -- and the soundtrack's classical flourishes become more strident -- the film's plausibility plummets.

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Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Neil LaBute on his worst day couldn't devise a scenario so primitive in its psychology and predictable in its sense of sin.

80

Variety by Lisa Nesselson

There's plenty for both the eyes and intellect to groove over in Secret Things, a taut, juicy, low-key feast of sexual and office politics filtered through helmer Jean-Claude Brisseau's customary blend of expedient formality and all-stops-out baroque behavior.

60

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

It would be hard to mount a straight-faced defense of Brisseau's feverish moral tale, complete with a lurking angel of death, but the carnal machinations are hugely entertaining -- particularly if you like your skin with a bracing sermon chaser.

80

L.A. Weekly by Scott Foundas

Though his work has been little seen outside of France, writer-director Jean-Claude Brisseau's reputation as one of the most terribles of his country's filmmaking enfants precedes him. This 2002 film offers ample evidence as to why.

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The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Cobbled together from borrowed parts, Jean-Claude Brisseau's Secret Things makes a fearsome Frankenstein monster out of other movies, yet the influences are so thoroughly digested that they come out seeming wholly original.

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