Une flamme dans mon coeur (1987)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Alain Tanner

Writers:

Myriam Mézières (writer)
Alain Tanner (writer)

Release Date:

3 June 1987 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Cast

Myriam Mézières	...	Mercedes
Benoît Régent	...	Pierre
Aziz Kabouche	...	Johnny
André Marcon	...	Etienne
Douglas Ireland
Jean-Gabriel Nordmann	...	Producer
Biana	...	Friend
Jean-Yves Berteloot	...	Partner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Anne Rucki	...	La Pianiste

Also Known As:

A Flame in My Heart

Runtime:

USA:106 min

Country:

France | Switzerland

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Sweden:15

Company:

CAB Productions

Fascinating, creepy story of sexual compulsion

I saw this virtually unreleased film in the U.S. at a film festival and was both moved and compelled by this strange story of a woman's disintegration into madness and sex addiction. There's never been a character study like this. Apparently, the director and the actress wrote the film based on their own passed relationship and the painful honesty that it dramatizes makes it difficult to watch at times. Audiences often dismissed it as just another French sex film, but it examines the often deep recesses of the human personality with unflinching realism.