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You know how it is with the traveling type. We're never really anywhere for long.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Going Places/Les Valseuses

The clip I am giving you is just a tease, because it's hard to find complete clips of the sex scenes in this movie and they're all in French anyway. Speaking of, I'll go ahead and translate the gist of this clip. He asks her for a favor, and the favor is for him and his friend to finger her before she leaves. She says yes, so they do, and then she asks if it's for good luck, and he says that it's good luck to touch something dirty so she gets offended.

And I know that whole thing seems weird out of context, but that's essentially her whole character is that she'll sleep with anyone, and their whole characters that they're completely sex-focused and also creepy assholes. One of the major plot points is that they can't get her to come during sex and by the end of the film she finally does (but not with either one of them). It's also worth mentioning that the French title of the film translates to "the nuts/balls/family jewels/whatever"...basically a slang word for testicles. The whole film is packed with sex scenes that are spectacularly unique and horrifically skeezy. Thus the whole film it tonight's favorite sex scene. Not favorite in that it's one of my favorite movies, because it isn't, but favorite because when I think of cinematic sex this is one of those films that has no comparison for me. It's horribly misogynistic and objectifies/victimizes women in almost every scene, but it's so unapologetic that it's kinda funny. If that makes any sense. It's like those friends you have that are jerks, but you know they're jerks so when they do jerky it's more endearing than it is annoying? I don't know. I'll give you another scene, though, since that scene was short.

In this one, Marie-Ange (Miou Miou) asks how old the girl is and she says she's 16. Then she asks if she's ever had sex before and she says no. Marie-Ange tells the guys and they agree to change that. You must keep in mind, too, that these people are strangers to that girl and her parents just kind of let her go off with them. It's a really weird scene, too, the way she lays in Marie-Ange's lap...just strange stuff. Strange movie.

1 Comments:

  • At 4:56 PM, November 11, 2009 , Anonymous Andrew said...

    Every time I watch a French movie, the very first thought that crosses my mind is: "Wow. I'm...not French at all." That was definitely my first reaction here.

    Do you watch a lot of French films? Can you get away without using subtitles? Do you have like a favorite country for movies?

     

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