School of desire

Movie
German title	School of desire
Original title	L'École de la chair
Country of production	France , Belgium , Luxembourg
original language	French
Publishing year	1998
length	105 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Benoît Jacquot
script	Jacques Fieschi
production	Vincent Malle , Fabienne Vonier , Claude Waringo
camera	Caroline Champetier
cut	Luc Barnier
occupation
Isabelle Huppert : Dominique Vincent Martinez : Quentin Marthe Keller : Madame Thorpe Vincent Lindon : Chris François Berléand : Soukaz Danièle Dubroux : Dominique's girlfriend Bernard Le Coq : Cordier Jean-Claude Dauphin : Louis-Guy Jean-Louis Richard : Monsieur Thorpe Roxane Mesquida : Navy

School of Desire (original title: L'École de la Chair ) is a film adaptation of the novel "Nikutai no gakkō" (1963) by Mishima Yukio from 1998.

action

Dominique, a successful but internally empty business woman of around forty and craving for love, persuades the half-age bisexual prostitute Quentin to let her stand him up. Although she doesn't even find him likeable and suffers from his emotional coldness, she only succeeds in breaking free from him after a long time.

background

The film first screened in competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1998 .

Reviews

“A very dark modern melodrama that meditates without illusions on the commodity character of sexuality and love and describes a worldview and human image that has become cynical in a sophisticated role-play. The figures played by excellent actors move within the elegant staging as if in a waking dream and symbolize the inner landscape of their souls in a subtle and sobering way. In addition, the film is a fascinating homage to the actress Isabelle Huppert. (Also OmdU) "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards and nominations

• 1998: Cannes International Film Festival - nomination for Best Film
• 1998: Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur - nomination for Best Film
• 1999: César - nomination for Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert
• 1999: Acteurs à l'Écran - Nomination for Best Actor: Vincent Martinez

Web links

• The School of Flesh in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• School of desire at prisma.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ School of Desire. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .