jazzest Review of Eros thérapie

Eros thérapie (2004)

Two Hetero Males Triumph over Two Lesbians in Emotionally Manipulated Relationship Game

[4/10 · 8 May 2005]

In this lightly stylish prototypical contemporary Euro flick with an overly twisted plot, inherited-off the Fassbinder-Almodóvar tradition, two heterosexual males, a middle-aged attorney and his young buddy, play an emotionally manipulated relationship game against a lesbian couple, the attorney's wife and a young film critic. The French Jazzy Pop sound track, featuring pseudo-Milt-Jackson-like vibraphone, adds a fashionable tone to the film. The conclusion, the hetero men's triumph over the lesbians, could be an antithesis to the mainstream lesbian cinema whose majority is morally oriented, could be just a sell-out to the hetero male audience, or even could be the filmmaker Danièle Dubroux's thoughtless usage of lesbianism as a storytelling gadget; in any case, it is not appealing.