Bertrand Blier is the specialist of meta films. Here it is a meta-story about the fact that mature men are fed up with women. The film must surely be evaluated in the context of the late 70s. But on the whole the film works and contains some tasty and anthological sequences. Nevertheless it is not a story like the others and we can enjoy the dialogues or some scenes, but the whole is nevertheless a little disjointed. Our two main characters are Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean Rochefort, the first is a gynecologist who is tired of putting his fingers and eyes in the vaginas of his clients, and the other who is visibly a victim of the women who cross him, a seducer without knowing it...
An element that structures the film a lot, especially in its first part, and the fact that women are replaced by good food, pleasures of the palate, with very fatty foods, very sweet, with lots of alcohol. The second part is much more meta for the moment and the film ends inside a woman, which is in its logic. The second part is much more meta for sure and the film ends inside a woman vagina which is well in its logic, passing by the sequence of the industrial extractions of the sperm of our two characters, delicious and delirious sequence.
It is not a film for all sensibilities, but it is a unique film with strong hysteresis.
It is not a film for all sensibilities, but it is a unique film with strong hysteresis.