Follows a young woman, Eva, seeking professional help for a sexual addiction that threatens to overwhelm her. The therapist recommends a retreat to a lush countryside manse with a mixed-gender support group of the similarly afflicted, but will exhaustion prove to be the answer?
Direction
Ovidie's journalist-turned-director eye treats sex as anthropology, not exploitation.
Writing
Dialogue that actually interrogates addiction rather than just titillating.
Director
Ovidie
Tiffany Doll
Laurence - Laurent's Wife, Therapy Client
Emy Russo
Eva - Therapy Client
Angell Summers
Melanie - Therapy Client
Julie Valmont
Olivia - Therapy Assistant
Liza Del Sierra
Zoe - Therapy Client
Ovidie
Self
Phil Holliday
Cedric - Therapy Client
Bruno SX
Laurent - Laurence's Husband, Therapy Client
Pascal St. James
Denis 'Buck' - Therapy Client
Titof
Chris - Therapy Client
Tony Carrera
Frank - Therapy Client
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ovidie was a prominent French porn performer who pivoted to feminist film criticism; Pulsion is her attempt to merge those identities.
The mansion setting deliberately echoes Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel—trapped bourgeoisie, but here they can't stop performing their compulsions instead of being unable to leave.
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