À l'aventure (2008)

A sexually unsatisfied young woman decided to pursue various sexual experiments and scenarios.

Director:

Jean-Claude Brisseau

Writer:

Jean-Claude Brisseau (screenplay)

Stars:

Carole Brana, Arnaud Binard, Nadia Chibani

Cast

Cast overview:
Carole Brana	...	Sandrine
Arnaud Binard	...	Greg
Nadia Chibani	...	Mina
Lise Bellynck	...	Sophie
Etienne Chicot	...	L'homme sur le banc
Estelle Galarme	...	Françoise
Frédéric Aspisi	...	Jérôme - L'architecte
Jocelyn Quivrin	...	Fred
Michèle Larue	...	La mère de Sandrine

Storyline

Fed up with her present lifestyle, and more particularly sexually unsatisfied by her boyfriend Fred, Sandrine decides to find a new way in life. Intrigued by her friend Sophie, who tells her about her sexual experimentations, she will find, through various encounters, new pleasures and new experiences, whether physical or spiritual.

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Plot Keywords:

bliss | sex standing up | vibrator | missionary position | copulation | 

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Shellac [France]

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

1 April 2009 (France)

Also Known As:

À Aventura

Company Credits

Production Co:

Moby Dick Films,La Sorcière Rouge,Soficinéma 3

Technical Specs

Runtime:

104 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

French visa # 118633.

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Quotes

Greg: It all begins with hysteria. Conversion hysteria.In the late 1800s certain patients suffered from psychic disorders like blindness and paralysis but not organic injuries. They were thought to be bluffing. But if you stick a pin into a paralyzed hysteric's leg, he feels nothing, no pain. At the time Freud began to work with a doctor named Breuer who took hysteria very seriously. By using hypnosis,he managed to return to the patient's past and discovered one or more traumatic events that caused ...

User Reviews

Sexual Pleasure, Meaning of Life, and Einstein

This film attempted to be more than a skin flick by blending some more serious, philosophical elements into basically a story of sexual pursuit. It was not a bad mix - until this 'levitation' scene which I think ruined everything. We all know levitation through mental power is physically impossible so I don't understand why director Brisseau chose to bring it in.

Sandrine, the protagonist in the film, was not happy with conventional sex with her boyfriend, and made an effort to seek pleasure in other ways. So over the course of the film you see beautiful women doing it, and what they did is pleasant to watch. An older man, an ex-physics professor, came into the story and he in some way played a fatherly role to Sandrine, educating her on other aspects of life including the universe and basic physics fundamentals such as the speeds of sound and light. What is good about the story is the interlacing of sex and physics appeared to work in some way too.

In a nutshell I think this film is worth viewing for some of the erotic scenes, and the dialogues between Sandrine and the older, wiser friend. It could have been a much better film if other fine tuning was done and the absurd scene omitted.