Mon homme

1996
12
1h 39m

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6.2/10

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In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices

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In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in... Read allIn Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to ... Read allIn Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, cl... Read all

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IMDb RATING

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- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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Trivia
In 2021, Anouk Grinberg said this movie was so traumatic for her that she wanted to stay away from cinema for years. Grinberg, who at the time of filming was director Bertrand Blier's girlfriend (the two will separate soon afterwards), said: "Sometimes a role is difficult to play when it offends modesty too much. Modesty isn't nothing. It touches on morality, but also on very profound things. I was made to play a whore in a Blier film, and it took me years to get over it. It made me sick. That I'd been forced to violate modesty. Modesty is sacred. And women take a big hit in that respect, more than men."

Quotes
Jeannot: It is said that a pimp doesn't work. But he does: he bangs.

Soundtracks
Symphony nº2 op. 31 - Kopernikowska
Written by Henryk Mikolaj Górecki
Performed by Emese Soos and Tamas Altorjay

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7/10

Inventive, clever, funny... but also misogynistic?

As usual with a Blier film, the narrative is elliptical and challenging. In this study of the relationships between the sexes, Blier employs his considerable directorial skills in a bleakly funny "story" that follows the happy prostitute Marie, who befriends a tramp who later becomes her pimp. The film constantly challenges the male and female stereotypes, though some of the depictions of women in the film do raise the suspicion of misogyny on the director's part. However, a male character's apology to "all women" - made straight to camera at the very last moment of the film - seems to suggest that he is being deliberately provocative. I will need to see the film again to make up my mind.

I will say, though, that this movie is well worth watching. It's inventive, clever, funny, and just great cinema.