Choses secrètes 2002

Critics score:
49 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: Either a highly erotic art film trading in sex, power and morality, or a trashy porno pretending to be deep. After watching two hours of hot young French women having sex with men, each other and themselves, I have to go with the latter. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: There comes a moment in all truly terrible movies when you sense that you couldn't possibly be co-existing on the same planet as the filmmakers. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... a sexy movie. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: You couldn't nail a particular kind of modern French film better if you tried: explicit sex, bad behavior, and shrieking pretention all in one lumpy shock-the-bourgeoisie package. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Merciless and darkly funny. Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: Deteriorates into a silly farce that lands somewhere between Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Guccione's Caligula. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: A wild and woolly fable. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: For those who like their erotic melodramas frosty and lavish, Secret Things is as elaborately whipped up as such treats ever get. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: [The movie] collapses under the weight of its own artsiness. Read more

Dave Kehr, New York Times: Jean-Claude Brisseau's French film is a frequently overheated, often delirious fantasy about two Parisiennes in their early 20's. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: A sweetly seductive entertainment. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The film is well made, well acted, cleverly written, photographed by Wilfrid Sempe as if he's a conspirer with the sexual schemers. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It plays rather like a humorless version of Barbara Stanwyck's tongue-in-cheek classic, Baby Face. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Imagine Emmanuelle remade on a shoestring budget or Eyes Wide Shut staged by a community theater group. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Brisseau effortlessly stages the sort of ooh-la-la orgy that so clearly eluded Stanley Kubrick in Eyes Wide Shut. Read more