Synopsis
Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane’s mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken.
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Cast
- Vincent GalloDr. Shane Brown
- Tricia VesseyJune Brown
- Béatrice DalleCoré
- Alex DescasDr. Léo
- Florence Loiret CailleChristelle
- Nicolas DuvauchelleErwan
- Raphaël NealLudo
- José GarciaDr. Choart
- Hélène LapiowerMalécot
- Marilú MariniFriessen
Recommendations
- 75
New York Post
If you have an appetite for audacious, one-of-a-kind filmmaking, this one's for you. Just don't say you weren't warned. - 70
Salon
A haunting and terrifying film. It's also a film of wonderful spaces and silences. - 63
Boston Globe
A success in some sense, but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Something haunting is going on here, but it's as difficult for the viewers as it is for the characters to sink their teeth into anything truly satisfying. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The extremely intimate violence is more explicit than is the mainstream norm, and Dalle's mouth is the stuff of nightmares. - 40
L.A. Weekly
A taut mess -- beautiful, gory, tedious and puzzling. - 33
Entertainment Weekly
A demented, orgiastically gory vampire/sex parable. - 25
New York Daily News
Insipid, self-indulgent bit of art-house macabre.
