I am shocked at how many women like this

You must have seen the VHS version Kimville because the DVD director's cut has serveral explicit scenes including: 2 scences of men going down on women, actually penetration (with gentalia and fingers) and actually fellatio.

It's not a sexual movie. It's a movie about sexuality. And you can't have one without showing some. And I thought it was brilliantly executed.

The birth of the child at the end (and the death of one of the characters) brings it all together for me. Sex is about life, being alive, giving life etc.

I disagree. I liked the movie a lot! I think the film takes fantasies that most women have and brings them into reality. All the things that the main character does is what most women fantasize or think about at one time or another. And sometimes it's ugly and stupid. And most women won't admit that.

If I had a nickel for every cigarette your mom smoked, I'd be dead.

I'm a little late responding to this thread, but, after having seen the film I also wanted to add my two cents in.
I watched this film with my hubby last night, and to be quite frank- from the hoopla I had read about it online (especially here), I was expecting something a LOT more extreme. I was expecting her to take several lovers, do horrible degrading things and some how attempt to be noble about it all. Instead what I found, personally speaking- was the tale of a woman and a man in the single most disfunctional relationship I have ever seen portayed on screen. A couple whom constantly is cruel and detached from one another. Both dispassionate, both only there out of some kind of obsession that they think is love.
Now yes she cheats, which is inexcusable in any form- but her internal dialouge running through the film- it almost makes her seem scizophrenic.
What she says on the inside is SO easily related to by numerous women. I sat there in awe, saying to myself "Oh Dear- I have felt/feel that way too sometimes..."
But then the things she does in her reality, the things she says- it is such a huge contradiction to the things she feels and thinks.
If she came close to loving anyone in the film, it was Robert, the Master she begins seeing for Domination sessions.
I also feel the very strong need to compliment the screenwriter and director on a fantastic potrayal of how a Master SHOULD be. not how they always are, or how people run off and act- but how they should be. Bravo.

Killing Paul in the end was a surprise. I was under the impression they reconciled. I was also a bit disturbed by the birth scene. Not that I have never given birth, but the child was far too blue, and the amniotic fluid way to dicoloured. I am wondering if they used footage from a stillbirth or something similar for the film. That was not footage of a healthy baby at live birth. I've given birth... the fluid is more like watered down tomato juice and the baby is more pink. MUCH more pink...

Regardless i thought the film was funny. Maybe it shouldn't have been funny, and I have a terrible sense of humour, but i found it funny. I was disappointed all the way from the story line to the action to the acting, but I saw it, and had a few opinions. I hope some people find this post interesting.

Oh yes- and did I find it humiliating as a woman? No. I found it sad and touching as a woman. The feminist in me was a little shocked, but we all have different feelings on feminisim then don't we?

Some decent acting. Some good cinematography. Overall? A pretentious pile of doo doo. An excuse for wannabe intellectuals to use words like "brave", "daring", "empowering", and "provocative", and for men-haters disguised as feminists to get on their soapbox and tell men about how they "don't get it"(apparently it's some victory for feminism that she kills her boyfriend instead of just dumping the clod), and for people to proclaim how sophisticated they are (yawn) all the while denying that the reason they watched it in the first place was for the sex.

I'm pretty late to the Romance bandwagon but I more closely agree with Forgot_to_be_human's take on the movie. The only empowerment I saw was a woman who finally took the courage to explore her sexuality but I felt she was kinda doing the "I want my cake and eat it too" thing by cheating on her boyfriend and still wanting that sturdy family life with him. He was a loser plain and simple, who didn't care about her wants and needs, and put himself before anything. He wanted love from everyone and made her seem crazy because she got a little jealous every time he whored himself around the dance floor. Why did she stay with him? Love. Sure. Whatever. Why did she want to have a baby with someone that didn't love her fully? to me she just was just another stupid dumb bit*h who couldn't gather herself up to leave this inconsiderate douche. And then after having a baby with his man she kills HIM AND THE CAT. He was a douche but he never beat her or hurt her or forced her to stay. Did she have to take the easy way out and kill them and blow up the damn apartment?

I thought the actress did a fine job and I understand what it was trying to say but for the most part I wasn't impressed. Artsy French film full of it's own message.

4/10