Despite a few potholes of ennui along the way, pic has enough entertainment value to cross borders and titillate auds with its plentiful nudity and uninhibited sexual mores.
Quickly turns into an earnest talkfest (spiced with flashes of nudity and sexually explicit dialogue) that feels stiffly programmatic and ultimately false.
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Despite a plethora of "naughty bits," it's a yawn.
Certainly sexy, entertaining and provocative -- in several senses of the word -- but it's also tiresome as only a French film can be when everyone in it has only sex and amour on his or her mind and is deadly serious about both.
30
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Surprisingly unsexy, uninvolving affair.
30
Village VoiceDennis Lim
Village VoiceDennis Lim
The characters exist in single dimensions (trapped in a noxiously misogynist role, even the fearless Richard stands no chance), and in an effort to keep the plates spinning, the movie quickly devolves from risqué to risible.
12
New York PostMegan Lehmann
New York PostMegan Lehmann
The only feeling the character seems capable of is lust -- and when he hits on the male nurse looking after his newborn baby in the hospital, this hollow, unfunny "comedy" moves from merely tedious to nasty.