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      À l'aventure

      2008 1h 44m Drama List
      Reviews 27% 100+ Ratings Audience Score Sandrine (Carole Brana) is a young businesswoman who has grown bored with her daily routine. When she confesses her malaise to a psychiatry student named Greg (Arnaud Binard), he eagerly helps her abandon her inhibitions through hypnosis. Afterward Sandrine promptly leaves her job and boyfriend (Jocelyn Quivrin) and sets out to rediscover herself through a series of heated sexual adventures. She willfully and brazenly defies social mores and sexual taboos, all in search of her bliss. Read More Read Less

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      Deesha Philyaw Bitch Media Frankly, I wasn't terribly impressed by this tale of a sexually dissatisfied woman. Dec 21, 2020 Full Review Brian Tallerico HollywoodChicago.com Some of the philosophical conversations go on a bit too long but it's still an interesting film with some good performances (and some of the most beautiful actresses on the planet). Jun 12, 2009 Full Review Chris Cabin Filmcritic.com Rated: 3/5 Jul 14, 2009 Full Review Jeremy Heilman MovieMartyr.com The tenderness that L'aventure discovers as it stares into the void might be its most radical gesture of all. Rated: 72/100 Jul 14, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member What is life, love and pleasure? Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member The heroine, seeing an opportunity to step away from the rat race, cultivates new friendships. These new friends all share her hunger for deeper, new-age openness in erotic expression; which turns to mysticism. The one thread of sanity is the old man who finds a semblance of enjoyment chatting up women on a park bench. Of course he's a cabbie. This film retains many of the qualities of traditional French films while adding to the modern mythologies of Freudian fetishes and our blind enthrallment to learning only after an experience. To sum up: the script writer, emotionally, is a 20-ish "expert" of the human condition. What can we learn here... ? Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty much your standard French movie, i.e. pretentious crap. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member A pretty good erotic drama that seems to be more interested in it's own idea's than mearly titilating the audience, and it is all the better for it. Revolves around Sandrine a young women who is bored with her fiance, her job and life in general. She leaves her fiance and her job and begins a quest of self exploration and realization that involves sexuality, hypnosis and plenty of philosophical musings. I feel that the movie would have been more interesting if a little more time was spent on Sandrine's life before she breaks away from the routine. Instead we meet the character already fed up, and within the first 10 minutes she has already begun to "find herself." That complaint aside the pace of the movie is fairly slow and the philosophical dialouge does tend to drag on a bit, but this is still a very enjoyable and intelligent film even if it is a tad pretentious. There's always a fineline between Eroticism and Softcore and this film falls firmly in the territory of Eroticism. While there is plenty of sex in this movie (traditional man/women missionary style fare alongside plenty of lesbianism and a little S&M for good measure) this film isn't about sex. The sex is there to help drive the story forward, in the same way violence is featured in horror films. All in all a worthwhile film, that is worth a watch for those into this kinda stuff. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member I liked it. A girl wants to experiment with an open-type relationship and goes in way over her had to the point where she ultimately gets hurt and learns a valuable lesson. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review marc-olivier m Les discussions philosophiques et psychanalytiques y sont très intéressantes. On parles ici de la recherche de la vérité, de la liberté et du plaisir, tout en prenant conscience, de façon très pessimiste et cruelle, de la condition humaine et des relations interpersonnelles. Pour y arriver, Sandrine, le personnage principal, se détache de son travail, de son mari et de sa famille et part en quête de réponses et de nouvelles expériences. Malgré un départ prometteur, le fiilm jure beaucoup trop avec des scènes érotiques - extrèmement - explicites et d'une utilitée douteuse, en plus un côté mystique qui m'a déplu. Ont y retrouve aussi des scènes parfois bien trop longues et inintéressantes. La prétention qui resort du film donne la nausée. Je trouve bien dommage que le film soit gâché de cette manière, car j'ai bien aimé les 40 premières minutes. Malgré qu'elles étaient longues, je les voyaient servir à une histoire mieux fiscellée.. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Sandrine (Carole Brana) is a young businesswoman who has grown bored with her daily routine. When she confesses her malaise to a psychiatry student named Greg (Arnaud Binard), he eagerly helps her abandon her inhibitions through hypnosis. Afterward Sandrine promptly leaves her job and boyfriend (Jocelyn Quivrin) and sets out to rediscover herself through a series of heated sexual adventures. She willfully and brazenly defies social mores and sexual taboos, all in search of her bliss.
      Director
      Jean-Claude Brisseau
      Screenwriter
      Jean-Claude Brisseau
      Production Co
      Moby Dick Films
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      French (France)
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 29, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 44m
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