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This movie is immoral: its climax is a revenge because Sneaky could "take" Senay before Okwe could make love to her. The taking of the kidneys of Sneaky is horrible and morally completely unjustified. The end with Okwe weeping is a weak and sentimental anticlimax. The ways illegal immigrants steal and fraud the passports is unacceptable to be defended as a story in a movie. The way the immigration inspection is depicted is laughable and cannot be taken for serious at all. This movie is seriously suffering from the intention of the director to deliver a message which is not reaching its goal because of the immoral undertone of the entire movie. One should be disgusted by the way some people try to undermine the immigration system. The result is clear: poverty, slums and bad housing and people doing everything to stay in London where they continue their life in depravation and solitude.

The erotic scenes in this movie are splendid. The actress and the director can explore female psychology in a way that men can understand. This is a movie that shows eroticism in all its beauty without vulgarity. Very good script by Catherine Breillat. The dialogues are putting in place the exact atmosphere.

In this movie the actors and the director experiment on their sexual fantasies but it is not pornographic at all! The mermaid is sitting on the director and the auk is the symbol for the woman of the bird who walks as a man but cannot fly and swims like a fish. The woman at the start of the movie collects all sorts of auks! Plastic ones, tall ones and short ones. The title of the movie suggests the special smell of fish which makes that the principal actor Geert Six can make love. He cannot have sex without the smell of fish. So he seduces his big love Gail Verhasselt (a beautiful girl by the way) in the environment of a fish-shop. When she revolts and refuses his advances, he is unhappy and leaves for Morocco. The other woman will appear (Els) at the beach in the form of mermaid: so half fish and half human. So the woman prefers an auk to a man and the man prefers a mermaid to a real woman. The movie is very straight in its sexual language but this comes over natural while it is well done by the actors. Some shopkeepers (a butcher f.i or a barkeeper) give the movie its freshness by their idiotic observations.