L'Art (délicat) de la séduction (2001) User Reviews

What guys do between dates (dvd)

[leplatypus · 4/10 · 9 September 2011]

The movie is similar to the audio commentary: it's about two buddies, Berry and Timsit, and their feelings about relationships. Thus you got only a masculine point of view here explaining that the character of Cecile is left unfortunately in shadows in spite of being her first feature!

Even though Timsit has a sympathetic personality, focusing about him is a bit dull and leads to too much sexual worry. I admit that sex is love but love isn't only sex. Finally, Berry as a first time director is better at shooting families reunion.

However, the best moment for me was their big wheel ride in Tuileries Garden because i did it and unlike them, i was terrified and frozen by the vertigo.

An offensive and misogynous film

[claire.amandry · 1/10 · 8 May 2001]

Fist-time director Richard Berry delivers here a comedy that not only is not funny but also misogynist, as during 90 minutes women are considered as mere sexual objects and not human creatures. Such a subject could have been treated in a light, sparkling way but the dialogues are so vulgar and dumb that one really feels sorry for the actors involved in it. Definitely a bad movie.

Total failure

[cayenne-3 · 2/10 · 29 May 2006]

It is very difficult for me to understand the aim of this movie : it is not a comedy because it is rarely funny, it is not an intellectual movie because it lacks the depth to be taken at the second degree, and it is not a drama because one can hardly feel sorry for the characters... In addition to that, the characters, the dialogs and the situations are so exaggerated and painfully artificial that it is impossible to adhere to the story... All the male characters have only one thing in mind : women and sex. And all women are merely sexual objects (the main character, the neighbor, the prostitutes, etc. - they even depicted the boss as a lesbian character) whose final role is to be a mother... Ridiculous and misogynous...

An ode to longing

[void_mind · 7/10 · 22 December 2006]

This movie is about a man meeting the woman of his dreams. They automatically connect but the woman tells him she wants believes to achieve great sexual bonding, passion and desire, a certain amount of time and patience and restraint must be exercised. She sets him a date, five months later where they will have their first sexual encounter and they see each other only once a week until then. This movie is all about the buildup of the kind of desire and longing that few people will ever bother to wait long enough to experience.

That said, I certainly don't think it's a great movie and I didn't write this review to advise people to watch it. I wrote this review to counter balance the overly negative review I read here. Yes, the conversations often revolve around sexual matters but there is NOTHING misogynist about it (as other comments here suggest) unless you are a frigid, castrated puritan.

My advice: if you see it as nothing more than what it is, an ode to longing, it's not a bad movie. Whatever you do, make your own mind about it. I'm happy I did.

Very fine comedy

[bramoc · 8/10 · 10 October 2006]

I do not agree with the first writer, I find this is a brilliant movie! If you don't understand the frustrations/problems of the main character, you might not like this film. But when you do, this film is full of moments that make you smile and sometimes it makes you laugh out loud. About the fact that woman are not portrait-ed as human beings (as the first writer wrote)..., well, a lot of men sometimes have thoughts/manners as the main character. So it's very human behavior! Sorry ladies! But that's not such a big issue in this movie; I just wanted to take away the stamp off this movie it being offensive towards woman, because it's not so. It's just a sort of 'fairytale' in today's world. And after all: it's a movie, so don't take it all to serious! I recommend it you see it!

Bramoc

Magnifiquent Film

[calzieu · 10/10 · 14 February 2013]

Delicious the film! I loved it! Music great of course of Éric Serra of the projects of Luc Besson. In the history, Etienne and Laure play the couple perfect. Richard Berry play still the man with the women. In real life also. Richard Berry is the realizer of the film also. He is Woody Allen in France. Cécile of France is the Audrey Hepburn of the generation mine. The dialog was very droll. Richard Berry writes the scenery of the films too. All of the world watches the film when they laugh. I watch this film since twelve years ago still. Opposite of zen is the avocado Master Zen, Alain Chabat. He still play funny. Christmas is never funny only in this movie.