Set in Cherbourg, France and in a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people are turned upside down after they meet Cecile, a character who symbolizes desire. Cecile is a 20-year-old woman whose father recently died and she sets about to bury her grief by having sexual relations with various lovers of people that she knows and does not know. Chance is Cecile’s boyfriend and a petty criminal who loves her, but he cannot satisfy her constant carnal desires.Q Desire 2011
Matt is an auto mechanic friend of Chance whose girlfriend Alice refuses to have sex with him. Cecile also gives advice to her friends about how and how not to pleasure men and women. Unable to find inner peace through various sexual encounters with Chance, Matt and even Alice, Cecile finally discovers another path to healing. Some young actors are good and promising. The first one is Deborah Révy who plays the leading role. Even if her character is not very credible (a girl obsessed by sex and greedy to make love with many people, just because her father died recently), she plays it well, with a provocative and natural attitude. She’s pretty convincing even if the storyboard is rather awkward.Hélène Zimmer who plays, on the opposite, a shy girl frightened to make love with her boyfriend for the first time, is touching and very convincing too.In that kind of movie showing explicitly physical love, I preferred “9 songs” by far, because in “Q”, one has often the feeling that the explicit sex scenes are shown for themselves and don’t really serve the story. so, watching the movie, one have an embarrassing feeling to be a voyeur.The women are attractive and there’s not a shortage of fantastic “art” scenes. I will have to re-watch sometime so I can get the plot, so definitely a movie you can watch multiple times.