| View Larger Image | Confusion of Genders | DVDStarring: Pascal Greggory, Nathalie Richard, Julie Gayet, Alain Bashung, Vincent Martinez
Directed By: Ilan Duran Cohen
Also With: Jeanne Lapoirie (Cinematographer), Ilan Duran Cohen (Producer), Ilan Duran Cohen (Writer), Didier Boujard (Producer), Jean Michel Savy (Producer), Mark Rau (Producer), Philippe Lasry (Writer)
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| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 94 minutes | | Format: | Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Picture This | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Release Date: | December 09, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 96,619th |
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Description
Based on a best selling novel of the same name, Confusion of Genders is an uninhibited romantic satire that tells the story of Alain (Pascal Greggory), who is having an office romance with a female colleague Laurence (Nathalie Richard). Unfortunately her younger brother Christophe (Cyrille Thouvenin) likes him as well. Alain however, doesn't know what he wants. Men, women, commitment and freedom are luring him in every direction but he is incapable of choosing. Or willing. When Alain encounters sexy, dangerous Marc (Vincent Martinez), the only way to get close to him is to become the messenger of Marc's passion (the sexy Babette, played by Julie Gayet), an entrancing woman whose charms Alain can not resist. Unfortunately, by this time, Christophe has moved into Alain's flat and Laurence is expecting his child and his hand in marriage. Will Alain find a compromise that will be acceptable to all? |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 12 reviews)
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Poor Quality Control by J. S. Judd (S ELGIN, IL)  2 Stars
February 05, 2009
The quality of this DVD is poor. The DVD "froze" during the last ten minutes of the movie. (This happened upon an initial purchase, but also with the subsequent replacement purchase.) Obviously, poor manufacturing and quality control.
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Leave It To The French To Serve Up Angst by H. F. Corbin (ATLANTA, GA USA)  4 Stars
August 16, 2007
In "Confusion of Genders," French director Ilan Duran Cohen's central character Alain (Pascal Greggory) has so many sexual alliances that you literally have to draw a diagram with him in the center and arrrows pointing to his many lovers to keep the story straight. (No pun intended.) He and his legal colleague Laurence (Nathalie Richard) manage to make a baby although they each acknowledge that they are not in love with each other. ("Love is a prison." On the other hand, someone in the film opines that "a marriage of convenience is so sad.") Then Alain is pursued-- and caught-- by the young frisky Christophe (Cyrille Thouvenin) and they eventually move in together while the pregnant Laurence is pretty much left on her own. (One of the most erotic scenes in the film has Christophe and Alain brushing their teeth while wearing only their underwear.) Alain also gets a crush on a client of his, Marc, (Vincent Martinez) who is in prison for murder and wants him to be the go-between to take messages to his girlfriend Babette (Julie Gayet), a quite beautiful hairdresser. As you would suspect by now, Alain is attracted to her as well.
To call Alain indecisive is an understatement. While his ego must be bursting with all these different people of both sexes vying for his affection, I had trouble grasping his charisma. But then I'm not French. The movie, on the other hand, is beautifully filmed. Certainly no one does well-lit angst better than the French.
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It seemed longer than it was. by Red (New York, NY)  3 Stars
July 04, 2006
I enjoyed it. I thought it was well acted and directed. It just seemed long. There was a lot going on at one point. There were several plots intertwined with the main story, very interesting possibilities.
It is worth a rental.
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???A Question Mark of a Man???? by JUST A REVIEWER2 4 Stars
August 25, 2005
Poor Alain......what a strange man. He is damaged goods, and perhaps that's why we are shown several scenes of his mother:: The Queen of Damaged Goods. Alain can sometimes show passion with someone, but he can't be constant with someone.....he can't be monogamous. What a question mark of a human being!
But it is not only Alain who needs our pity:: Poor Christophe!! Alain is the opposite of what this young man needs (recall, if you will, what C's own father says that he needs). Cyrille Thouvenin does a very good job with the Christophe role, and his performance alone makes this review's 4th Star. (Thouvenin is able to do oh-so-much more in that greater French production: "JUST A QUESTION OF LOVE" --Read about IT, get IT; you won't be sorry)
PS: Alain's life is not just one of Confusion; it is one of utter chaos.
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Gender Benders by Cookie Crook (arlington, va) 2 Stars
June 27, 2005
Confusion of Genders, directed by Ilan Duran Cohen, looks at the lives of several young people living in the city. Alain (Pascal Gregory) and Laurence (Nathalie Richard) play lawyers who are sleeping with each other and sometimes love each other, then hate each other then love each other again. Alain as it turns out is bi-sexual or gay (not really sure) and develops a strong sexual relationship for Christophre (Cyrille Thouvenin) a young farm boy. This story only becomes more disorganized when one of Alain clients Marc (Vincent Martinez) wants him to deliver a message to his ex-girlfriend Babbette (Julie Guyet) and if Alain does this then he will have sex with him. Alain wants this in the beginning, but then develops feeling for Babbett, while still having feelings for Christophre and also for Laurence.
If you have made it through all this, then you can see why Confusion of Genders really starts to deteriate at a rapid pace from having potential of developing real human emotions and relations to a free for all in the sack. The main character, Alain, acts like a hormonal teenager trying to screw anything with a hole and Laurence keeps taking this man back; you wonder were her smarts are (she is a lawyer) . The director does nothing to steer this film in anyway and just lets it meander until it could be an advertisement for an STD commercial. This movie does nothing to explore human emotion or how genders effect those emotions/relationships, but adds only chaos and revulsion to be in any type of relationship with people who really don't love themselves.
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