Saturday, January 09, 2021

Dis-moi que tu m'aimes (1974)

 English title: Tell Me You Love Me

Three friends -- two working partners and a client of theirs -- separate from their wives at more or less the same time. They initially enjoy their newfound freedom, and so do their wives. Two of those couples do not view their separation as definitive; the third one has an incompatibility problem of a higher order.

The seventies witnessed a change in the relationship between the sexes. Of course it began earlier than that, but in the seventies things were pretty much consolidated, and there was no turning back. This movie tries to explore those changes through farce. It features three couples, each exemplifying one issue: wives as sex objects; wives as household servants; and wives as a means of concealing male homosexuality. The film tackles its subject superficially and is extremely predictable in all its details. 

Film length was 85 minutes, which is much less than the different figures provided by IMDB and Wikipedia, respectively.

Rating: 31

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