Affair Of Love

In French the title is "An Affair of Love," not "pornographique" ... yet the way it's been labeled exploits the sexuality, rather than the romance involved, even if it was originally based on a sexual fantasy. The irony is that in "She's" opening lines, she explicitly says it's pornographic but the story she tells is anything but... In any case, this is a highly erotic film - because what is supposed to be unattached becomes quietly intense, and the reality, capturing the failures, flaws, and beauties of two plain, ordinary people who want passion and eroticism in their lives, yet cannot seem to catch it, or are not brave enough to risk their pride for it, is so touching. I was made breathless and, yes, I was very provoked by the sheer beauty of the sex between he/she. The insecurity, the openness, the vulnerability. A conversation in the film touches on Adam and Eve ... this is like watching Adam and Eve, in our time, jaded and older, surrounded by a lack of romance, and watching them experience love, arousal, and romance, as if for the first time.

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