Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Coralie RevelNathalie
- Sabrina SeyvecouSandrine
- Roger MiremontDelacroix
- Fabrice DevilleChristophe
- Blandine BuryCharlotte
- Olivier SolerCadene
- Viviane ThéophildèsMme. Mercier
- Dorothée PicardDelacroix's Mother
- Pierre GabastonPierre Gabaston
- María Luisa GarcíaMaría Luisa García
Recommendations
- 80
L.A. Weekly
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. - 80
Los Angeles Times
The result is both merciless and darkly funny. - 80
Variety
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. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
The sensationalistic beginning and needless mumbo-jumbo ending aside, this is a female buddy film with bite. - 70
The A.V. Club
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. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Skids into absurdity, but it never quite gets boring. Movies like this rarely are. - 50
Village Voice
Neil LaBute on his worst day couldn't devise a scenario so primitive in its psychology and predictable in its sense of sin.
