Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

johnmcc150 This film is a little gem. It is easy not to notice good acting but in this film Nathalie Baye and Sergi Lopez gave a master-class in how to do it well.Admittedly the plot is slightly artificial. After multiple meetings they would have used first names at least and so you have to suspend some disbelief, but the conclusion that it reaches is true. You can start a relationship from any direction, such as sex first, but where it will lead is unpredictable. In end relationships work by sharing, and so one where the lives were so entirely disconnected was doomed.It clearly does not appeal to some American tastes (the six of the lowest seven rating so far are from the US) but for those who like a subtle and thought-provoking film, this is recommended.The French title is unnecessarily provocative and does the film a disservice.

Henry Fields In a few years they made two movies that had similar plots: "Intimacy" and this "A Liason Pornographique". A man and a woman meet once in a week for one simple reason: to have sex. No love, no feelings... just sex. "Intimacy" was more pessimistic and dark, and maybe "A Lisaon" is more frivolous and absurd, and it looks more like a romantic comedy. Also the narration is pretty artificial: a fake interview with the main characters and a series of flashbacks.It's a pretty nice reflection on how much we complicate things such as love or sex. It's been filmed in a modern style and it has a "trance" soundtrack that it will sound old fashioned in a few years.*My rate: 6/10

mdefranc I trust anyone who's seen this didn't have to delve much into it to understand what Fonteyne's message is. Rather simple I would say, no need to dissect it, what you see is what it really is, as Magritte said about his paintings. The two characters portray the life of probably many of us in today's day and age, a disposable society where there seldomly is time for feelings to be discussed, even though we'd like to. Their "relationship" (I've been too generous I think..) is ironically carried on "routinely" probably like everything else they did on a daily basis, just like many of us do.As we now meet on the internet, they met through a magazine ad, just to dare one another I guess, challenging one another to see who'd give up first maybe. Fonteyne constantly keeps his lens on the two of them, leaving everything else out of sight, almost as if he were afraid of one of them fretting the situation and escaping. They don't even know each other's name; they just carry on, consuming their rapport behind the red of their hotel room walls, a deep, intense red, as deep and strong as the attraction for one another.No matter how prone each of them is at the end of the movie to declare their feelings, they will eventually fail in the attempt to chip the red off the wall and carry some of it along in their lives. A strong sense of regret underpins the end of this sad -yet realistic- story. What we see toward the epilogue is a manic attention to the few details around them from a lighting perspective: The red walls and the bed sheets as their love slowly dissipates.

glace_au_yaourt If you are a kind of person who's intrigued with the subtleties in romantic relationship, then you may like this story a lot. Their conversations, facial expressions, gestures...are very true to things that happen to all of us I think. A few discrepancies on how they each recalled the moment when they were still seeing each other. For instance, she said that they met once or twice a week...he said it was once every two weeks. And while watching them, despite some faults in memory, you just know that they felt or perhaps still feel strongly for each other. I can't help to think that these 2 people are quite fatalists, which we sometimes are too. Despite the 'unhappy' ending...it doesn't leave you feeling emotionally drained or sad. Only a very small dose of sadness but as you watch these 2 people, it leaves a kind of smile on your face. Honestly in my opinion, this is one of the rarest intelligent honest romantic stories ever made. A beautifully mature way of seeing love and its intricacies !!! There's nothing original about this film, it's an ordinary love story of the 20th/21st century...so ordinary that it becomes nothing else but ORIGINAL. Their love story isn't made to feed your fairy tale ideal about romance. Yet, it leaves you feel hopeful, it's an eye-opener sort of film...in which you learn that the best way to communicate when it comes to express your love...is to say it and don't risk to read on the other person's face or words, simply say what you feel. And if it still doesn't turn out to be a happy ending, you know that the memory stays sweetly intact. I can't praise enough of this film. And if any of you enjoy this type of film, then you might also want to have a look at 'le gout des autres'.