Curiosa

It's just... dull. The actors are doing their best, but the slow paced, no-surprise directing and story just don't do it any good. I personally didn't feel any connection to any of the characters, it seemed like a cold movie with no soul.

Many people here like the music score. I don't. I don't see why you would use contemporary music in a period drama movie. They could've used some classical improvisation.

The french of the fin-de-siecle... cliche or not, they were amazing. But this film doesn't seem to catch the magic of them and those times.

It's repetitive, slow paced at times, empty from emotional point of view. Just doesn't deliver.

Just a quick review. I saw this based on the poster art (an attractive woman in French knickers). I have to say after Larry Clark's The Smell Of Us it ranks as the most boring film I've seen this year. The production, sets and costumes are all first rate, but how do you make taboo subjects boring? Watch this film and find out.

The most important element in this feature is nudity, it is exposed as nothing and meaning nothing. Following the bad script, we have two historical writers here Pierre and Marie, but they are so poorly written that they don't even personalize their most relevant characteristics in the film.

For sure it is one of the worst French movies I have ever seen. And it is so bad that I can't wasted time writing about it.

Curiosa is an interesting erotic film about a woman's love and her sexuality, feminism crashing with machismo, a strange relationship about a free soul married woman who sometimes is a submissive object for love to a casanova photographer. The music score is amazing and the performances are correct, great filming locations, costumes and cinematography. The erotic scenes are perfectly filmed. Negative points are that sometimes the script is very slow and repetitive.

A good erotic art film based on true events, but it could be much better, something is missing.

It is set in France during the time women had little choice in their lives. Often sheltered, knowing little about their bodies, and marriages were more for convenience and security than for love. Pierre takes pictures. First, with a camera that uses glass plates, and then being more happy to get a Kodak box camera. He has an Algerian woman, Zohra that he is partial towards, and she performs erotic dances before small groups of friends, as well as posing for him. Marie, who is in a rather loveless marriage, starts an affair with him. And her husband, Henri seems to accept that. And at first Marie accepts that Pierre sleeps around, but soon decides that she really loves him, and tells him she doesn't love Henri. This is not what Pierre has in mind, however. So as expected, things start to quickly get complicated. The cinematography is excellent, and crisp for those who may watch the movie for only one thing, and they will not be disappointed. But it can get boring. Part of that is the movie is paced to how things would unfold back then, not as would be current.