Ridiculous, if slightly charming, French farce about the unlikely "relationship" between Helena, a self-indulgent call girl bored with the usual Johns she is expected to entertain, and horny 15-year-old Julien who, despite not being completely sure of himself, nevertheless ends up obsessed with her. Inevitably, complications arise.
Overly-tight editing speeds the screenplay along in rapid-fire fashion, shoving each scenario at the viewer's face much too quickly to be plausible, particularly the unrealistic back-and-forth dialog between the boy and his father. Do French dads really openly chuckle at their teenage sons' high-octane libidos under such risky circumstances? I highly doubt it.
Mimsy Farmer looks fetching enough here but certainly not drop-dead gorgeous as she does in other films she has appeared in.
Eva Ionescu in her small, inconsequential part is definitely not "beautiful" here at all with her unflattering, ratty-looking "hairstyle" (?) and bland, unsmiling face throughout. Furthermore, she doesn't even get to say or do much to contribute to the overall plot.
As for Julien's excruciatingly vain and bullying "pal" Capo, I wanted to throttle the jerk with his smug dialog and truly obnoxious, grope-and-grab behaviour towards females. I kept hoping that at some point he'd get a severe comeuppance, but unfortunately that never happened.
I couldn't buy Madame Josee's nonchalant attitude toward Julien's underage status concerning his disruptive involvement with her cash-cow Helene. Are we to believe that Madame Josee would allow her OWN son (if indeed she even had one) to openly consort with a prostitute, thereby jeopardizing her lucrative, illegal business?
Finally, where is that school in Paris with its indoor windows that allow the girl students to peer directly into the boys shower room, enabling them to openly taunt them with impunity (although the boys didn't seem in the least bit unperturbed by it all)? Indeed, not even the teachers appear to be overly-concerned about this visual oversight (pun unintended).
Overly-tight editing speeds the screenplay along in rapid-fire fashion, shoving each scenario at the viewer's face much too quickly to be plausible, particularly the unrealistic back-and-forth dialog between the boy and his father. Do French dads really openly chuckle at their teenage sons' high-octane libidos under such risky circumstances? I highly doubt it.
Mimsy Farmer looks fetching enough here but certainly not drop-dead gorgeous as she does in other films she has appeared in.
Eva Ionescu in her small, inconsequential part is definitely not "beautiful" here at all with her unflattering, ratty-looking "hairstyle" (?) and bland, unsmiling face throughout. Furthermore, she doesn't even get to say or do much to contribute to the overall plot.
As for Julien's excruciatingly vain and bullying "pal" Capo, I wanted to throttle the jerk with his smug dialog and truly obnoxious, grope-and-grab behaviour towards females. I kept hoping that at some point he'd get a severe comeuppance, but unfortunately that never happened.
I couldn't buy Madame Josee's nonchalant attitude toward Julien's underage status concerning his disruptive involvement with her cash-cow Helene. Are we to believe that Madame Josee would allow her OWN son (if indeed she even had one) to openly consort with a prostitute, thereby jeopardizing her lucrative, illegal business?
Finally, where is that school in Paris with its indoor windows that allow the girl students to peer directly into the boys shower room, enabling them to openly taunt them with impunity (although the boys didn't seem in the least bit unperturbed by it all)? Indeed, not even the teachers appear to be overly-concerned about this visual oversight (pun unintended).
