AT THE MOVIE THEATER. “La Passagère”, a sensual and transgressive film that tells us about female pleasure
By Toulouse editorial staff
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Chiara, in her flamboyant forties, has been married for several years to Antoine, a shellfish fisherman in a small Atlantic port. The couple works on could not be better.
A very present apprentice
The need for a helping hand being felt, Antoine decides to take on an apprentice, Maxence. The young man, from a bourgeois class well entrenched in his privileges, familiarizes himself as best he can with this very physical profession, without forgetting the seasickness… Antoine has European union responsibilities and, in the middle of Brexit, must be absent to participate in a committee. It won’t take more Chiara and Maxence to cross a course that certain respects for some time had hinted at.
Feminine pleasure
An adulterous relationship! Certainly yes. But what the director wants to show us in this first feature film is something quite different. It is first of all Chiara’s thirst for sensual freedom. She doesn’t have this really torrid relationship, of which not much is hidden from us and on very (too) many times, just to cheat on her husband or because she is bored. Or even in the transgressive but of having a good time with a man, young certainly, but especially of a higher social class than his.
Cécile de France radiant
In fact, this film speaks to us of feminine pleasure. A pleasure without restraint or taboo. Taking Cecile of France as ambassador of this rediscovered pleasure, Héloïse Pelloquet could not have found better as long as this actress transcends the usual codes by her robustness and the luminous naturalness that she radiates. Maxence is none other than the blond angel discovered by François Ozon in his magnificent “Eté 85”: Felix Lefebvre.
A final scene not essential
Totally magnetic as well as solar, he embodies a young man overwhelmed by carnal desire with a confusing natural sincerity. Perhaps the final scene, that of the divorce, was not essential, especially since, just before, a magnificent full-frame shot of the radiant face of a Chiara on her way to a future that is not no less, would have left the viewer on the path to all possibilities. But hey, that’s another matter.
A sulphurously romantic film.
>> Here is the video trailer for the film <
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