After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva begins to consider ways that she could take active steps to get some action going in that area. Unfortunately, none of the men she currently knows are interested in going to bed with her, including her business partner, who just might be sexually attracted to trees but certainly isn't to her. That being the case, it is particularly galling that he gets jealous at the very notion of her having sex with business clients. Eva discusses these issues (and a great deal more) with her similarly forty-ish gal-pals.
Acting
Évelyne directed herself into every embarrassing situation with zero vanity.
Writing
Dialogue so specific to fortysomething women it feels illegally personal.
Director
Évelyne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Évelyne (full name: Évelyne Dress) made this as her second feature and largely disappeared from cinema afterward, making this a peculiar time capsule of one woman's very specific vision.
This arrived during a brief early-90s wave of French films about middle-aged women's sexuality that Hollywood wouldn't touch for another decade—think of it as the chaotic aunt of 'Under the Tuscan Sun.'
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