English title: To Paint or Make Love.
Synopsis: A middle aged couple gets to know a younger couple and their relationship gets deeper than imagined at first.
Appraisal: In certain crucial aspects, this is unlike anything I have ever watched, aside from so-called pornography, in that there is no lasting conflict and things evolve to harmony. Most other films follow one of two patterns: either there is a conflict that is solved or not, or (which is considerably rarer) it has no conflict and things advance inexorably towards a catastrophe. For an example of the latter category, take The Wicker Man (1st version). The thing is, Peindre... could be viewed as pornography after all - of the softcore kind, but pornography all the same. It deals with partner exchanges between couples, or, as it is commonly called, swinging. It has a long set-up during which there is little sex, yet from the beginning there can be no doubt about where it is heading. The plot is firmly entrenched in the bourgeois milieu, and it is clearly a film for the bourgeois; certain details, such as when they decide they are not going to sell the house after all, make it clear that these people have no financial concerns of any kind, which may be a little off-putting to members of the audience who live on any kind of budget.
Rating: 49
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