Secret games
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Secret games |
| Original title | Choses secrètes |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Claude Brisseau |
| script | Jean-Claude Brisseau |
| production | Jean-François Geneix |
| music | Julien Civange |
| camera | Wilfrid Sempé |
| cut | María Luisa García |
| occupation | |
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Secret games is a French erotic grotesque from 2002 .
action
The young French woman Sandrine works in a bar and gets to know the stripper Nathalie, who lives out her sexuality in public and unabashedly. The two women, very different at first, soon become friends and begin a superficial affair; Sandrine learns how to use her body as an instrument of power and a weapon.
The two of them soon begin their social advancement project: Sandrine starts a job as a secretary in a large bank and uses her sexuality to make the manager Delacroix docile. However, while the much older man truly falls in love with her, she keeps her goal in mind. She cleverly persuades him to hire Nathalie too; a complicated love triangle begins, which, however, does not remain hidden from Christophe, the son of the director and future head of the bank. He blackmails Sandrine to marry him so that his father can finally, as agreed, hand over the management of the company to him after the marriage.
Soon after the marriage, Sandrine realizes that Christophe is not really interested in her, any more than in Nathalie, whose heart he had already broken. The only woman who really interests and excites him is his own sister Charlotte; he has wanted to protect her since the violent death of his mother. When their father dies and no facade has to be preserved, the two siblings finally live out their desires in the midst of an orgy in their father's castle and in front of the shocked Sandrine. When they then throw her out, Nathalie steps in and shoots Christophe.
Years later, Nathalie and Sandrine meet again. While the former has now served her sentence of several years and has a child with her husband, the latter has inherited her husband and leads the banking empire with Charlotte. In the end, Nathalie, the former stripper, remains the only one who finds happiness in marriage and family.
background
A closer look reveals an anachronism in the final scene of the film : several years are said to have passed since the events in the main plot, but the films advertised on the advertising column in the background were released at the same time as the film Der Schlafwandler ( 2000 ), which is currently running in the cinema in the main story.
criticism
film-dienst 25/2003: Despite revealing sex scenes, not a porn film, but an intellectually artificial study of sex and power in professional life, carried out by outstanding actresses.
Reception and awards
The magazine Cahiers du Cinema named the erotic fable about power and sex one of the ten best films of the year in 2002. At the Cannes Film Festival of the same year, Jean-Claude Brisseau was awarded the French Culture Prize for the film.
Web links
- Secret Things in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Review on www.prisma-online.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for secret games . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2003 (PDF; test number: 96 162 K).