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- "An Affair of Love (Une Liaison Pornographique)"
(Reviewed August 2, 2000)
- A woman of a certain age (Nathalie Baye) and a blank-faced European Kevin Kline lookalike (Sergi Lopez) hook up for a series of lethargic, soft-core and often overly earnest
booty
call sessions at a very red hotel. The original French title of this stale pastry is "Une Liaison Pornographique," but "pornographique" apparently means something a whole lot tamer across the Atlantic than
what
Americans think of as porn these days. Don't expect "Buttman Does Paris," in other words.
Most of this movie reminded me of the kind of boringly serious "erotica" that seems to be written by
bitter
women who don't get laid very often. The characters have no names, neither seems to have an actual life, and their desperate encounters are invested with way too much
Meaning-with-capital-M.
But
the fetchingly French Baye is topless a couple of times, an off-tangent scene featuring an elderly man midway through the movie makes for an intriguing diversion, and the ending is kinda touching, so it's
not a
complete loss.
Back Row Grade: D
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