In French. 125 minute running time so at least 30 minutes too long. This movie was ridiculous … just awful art-house porn. Isabelle Oooo-pair plays a sexually masochistic middle-aged woman who lives with her mother (and sleeps in the same bed!) and likes to smell cum rags in jerkoff booths at the local pornography shop (then it goes downhill from there). Michael Haneke made The White Ribbon, which I loved, but this one was a real clinker. Farr liked it but that’s only because of cleft-chin boy (“Oooo-pair has a knack for playing unusually brainy women harboring erotic perversions”).

Dick Roeper: “… a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman.”

Ed Gonzalez writes: “In essence, Haneke rapes while Huppert stoically resists,“ which is pretty clever.