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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0712267251322
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Strand Releasing
Manufacturer: Strand Releasing
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Strand Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 07, 2006
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 67869
Studio: Strand Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Rating:  - You're Either Tolerant or You're Not
Sex is everywhere in this film. It saturates every second we see and every step these characters take. And with the whole movie taking place at a seaside resort the environment is ripe for this type of lifestyle. Stylistically and artistically director Olivier Ducastel doesn't really accomplish very much. Rather he sets his sights on demolishing the bourgeois convention of marriage because as he sees it as repressive and not very natural. The story involves a family of four who is living for the summer in a waterfront cabin. The parents seem normal enough, but you can imagine how long that lasts. As it turns out both have issues and come to take on lovers on the side. Beatrix, the matriarch, has an overly aggressive one who followed her from back home and is constantly on the prowl harassing her for a booty call. Soon he starts playing out of the Mr. Big playbook and decides that she will be his and that the way to accomplish this is by forcing an outing of their affair. Meanwhile Marc, her husband, is going through something of an evolution. First he focuses on his son's sexual orientation and convinces himself that he has a gay son. All of a sudden his interest in the matter seems a little too pointed, it is because he himself is gay (obviously) and has to come to terms with that. All this means that his constant spying on his son's good looking friend while he is in the shower has nothing to do with parental do-gooding.
Throughout we get hit with the point that monogamy is an abomination. ... Read More
Rating:  - French Fluff Farce Surveys Pansexuality
The French have always been able to take issues involving sexuality, fidelity, relationships, and youth and create a healthy fun discussion: Hollywood still has problems even approaching these subjects, much less allowing itself to be lighthearted and universal. 'Crustaces et coquillages' (COTE D'AZUR) is a little French film that addresses these subjects in a manner so light and fun that the viewer wonders what all the puritanical fuss is about!
It is summer on the Cote d'Azur and a fun couple Marc (Gilbert Melki) and BĂ©atrix (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) are vacationing in a wonderful beach house with their teenage kids Charly (Romain Torres) and Laura (Sabrina Seyvecou) where Marc lived as a youth. Laura immediately takes off to Portugal with her biker boyfriend and Charly spends his days with his friend Martin (Edouard Collin), an openly gay teenager who is in love with Charly. Beatrix observes the boys' interactions and decides her son is gay, a fact that doesn't bother her at all but that seems to cause problems for Marc. BĂ©atrix's lover Mathieu arrives on the scene, declaring his desire for Beatrix to leave Marc: Beatrix isn't so sure - she loves Marc and her family, but also wants her summer lover.
In a series of hilarious shower sequences Charly pleasures himself, and indeed the entire crew in the house does the same, and Martin's advances to Charly are rebuffed forcing Martin to seek outlet at the beach's notorious fort section. Marc decides to thwart Charly's excessive ... Read More
Rating: - Past meets the Present
"Your dad stole Didier!" In a film that features four couples, that seems the summation. With a sister gone off to Portugal, the family has a spare room available, and the young and poetically lovely - but sexually neutral - son, Charly, invites the friend he hadn't seen in a year. They are trying to re-establish the friendship, which hit a rough patch with Martin's crush on Charly. Though Charly isn't coming across now, either, at least Martin finds an outlet in late night romps at the Cote d'Azur "fort" - a palace of rocks where gay or bi men go to make assignations. But it is Charly, following Martin - whom he doesn't like out of his sight, for some reason - who makes a connection with the soon-to-be-infamous Didier, a hunky plumber who has a taste for dominance games in sex and is ready to lay claim to the land that is Charly. However, Didier has a shock when realizing this boy is actually the son of his first and long lost love, Marc. Turns out he may have handcuffs at home, and like a bit of rough play, but sexy Didier is really a lovesick fool, and he earns our sympathy right away. In fact, he may be the nicest character of all, leaving you to know not to accept anybody at first glance. Marc, who's married to Beatrix, has returned to Cote d'Azur after a 25-year absence. The presence of Martin along with Charly is reminding Marc too forcibly of his own youth and sexual freedom, so he is growing taut with pressure and ready to explode. But Marc and Beatrix have a happy marriage, or maybe she ... Read More
Rating: - "Let nature have its way."
Oh those French, they love their food, wine and sex. Cote d'Azur is all about how they enjoy the pleasures of life; it's a sweet-natured erotic comedy, a somewhat silly but enjoyable French sex farce made with collaboration of writer-directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.
Ensconced at the family place on the Mediterranean and bracing for relaxation, Beatrix (a fabulous Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) decides, that her son Charly (Romain Torres), and his friend Martin (Edouard Collin) are gay. Beatrix prides her self on being ultra-tolerant, so her reaction is not one of distress, but relief.
Her husband Marc (Gilbert Melki) doesn't want to believe her. He's more concerned with the fact that he's been disinherited from a distant aunt, although he does stew virtuously and drops inopportune warnings about AIDS to the two boys and the dinner table.
Charly, however, severely denies his parents accusations, while Martin is out and proud, intent to cruise the beachside cliffs at night. Meanwhile, Beatrix is having an affair with her lover Mathieu (Jacques Bonnaffe), who has the disconcerting habit ringing her on her cell phone at all hours of the night and of popping out naked from bushes naked.
And then there's Didier, a hunky plumber (Jean-Marc Barr), who takes a liking to Charly, yet also hides a secret love. Marc gets turned on when he spies Martin pleasuring himself in the shower. Marc and Beatrix are an indeed an odd couple who somehow make it work.
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Rating: - So-so queer flick
Well, I normally like French gay-themed films but this one left me wanting. At least with the benefit of English subtitles, everything is not lost, but little really is gained; I was surprised by character development that seemed out of no where (lost in translation maybe) and the couplings that happened disappointed me.
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