She made a name for herself as a filmmaker with her adaptation of the Goncourt Prize-winning Chanson Douce. Lucie Borteleau returns with A mon seul désir, a unique and extremely daring film in which the director manages to pull it off beautifully. To be discovered in theaters from April 5th.
This feature film invites us to do what few people dare, to enter a strip club. "This film tells the story of someone who dared", explains the synopsis ofA mon seul désir. This someone is Aurore, played by Louise Chevillotte(The World After Us, The Event). She enters the club by chance and is captivated by the atmosphere. She wants only one thing: to be part of the team of this small strip club, where Mia (played by Zita Hanrot) takes her under her wing.
From then on, the film goes through several phases. At first, it is a story of initiation, staging the discovery of this world by this young woman, who immediately takes a liking to it. The scenes are sometimes raw and nothing is left to interpretation. But rest assured, the film never falls into the gravelly or the vulgar. On the contrary. Unlike La Maison, which dealt with a somewhat similar subject (a writer who was hired as a prostitute in a brothel), also starting from an initiation story, A mon seul désir avoids all the clichés that accompany such a theme.
On the contrary, Lucie Borteleau films these women with immense tenderness, infinite gentleness and great respect. She magnifies her actresses, Zita Hanrot and Louise Chevillotte in particular, but also all the others. All these women who reappropriate their bodies are sublime and, like the film, graceful to the extreme. Later, A mon seul désir becomes a love story, even more tender and pretty, which makes this feature film a real treat.
It is rare to see a film that combines so well the sultry and the pretty, the humor and the emotion, the beauty and the nudity, without ever falling into vulgarity.
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