I grabbed this video from Blockbuster not knowing until I got home that it was subtitled. I watched the French version with English subtitles. This movie was done so tasteful. What went on between the two characters behind closed doors goes as far as the viewers imagination. In this day and age when people resort more to meeting thru personal ads and online - this is a movie that shows what we are all looking for......that one passionate relationship where two people truly connect on a very deep level. I fell in love with Sergio Lopez and have become a huge fan!

In French the title is "An Affair of Love," not "pornographique" ... yet the way it's been labeled exploits the sexuality, rather than the romance involved, even if it was originally based on a sexual fantasy. The irony is that in "She's" opening lines, she explicitly says it's pornographic but the story she tells is anything but... In any case, this is a highly erotic film - because what is supposed to be unattached becomes quietly intense, and the reality, capturing the failures, flaws, and beauties of two plain, ordinary people who want passion and eroticism in their lives, yet cannot seem to catch it, or are not brave enough to risk their pride for it, is so touching. I was made breathless and, yes, I was very provoked by the sheer beauty of the sex between he/she. The insecurity, the openness, the vulnerability. A conversation in the film touches on Adam and Eve ... this is like watching Adam and Eve, in our time, jaded and older, surrounded by a lack of romance, and watching them experience love, arousal, and romance, as if for the first time.

A cute, yes cute, 40ish French couple recount the stages of their pornographic affair to an interviewer. I say cute because most of the acting they both did was thoughtful, sincere reflection, and I thought they were cute doing it. BIG SPOILER: We are never told nor shown what kind of kinky sex constituted the affair. Instead, the focus is on how they come to really like one another and then tragically decide to stop seeing one another. Even though I liked the characters I think the film was a cheap tease and tried to pull on the heartstrings too much. I don't know what the goal was for the film and the ride by itself wasn't good enough to compensate. It was neither erotic nor sexy, and for a 'talkie' film it had a little too much yardage between the goal posts.

The beauty of this film shocked me, and I will always remember it. The entire situation pulled me in right away, and "she," "he," and the interviewer unraveled what turned out to be a love story. The sex between them was gorgeous, powerful, loving, and unapologetic. I love how the interviewer, no matter how he tried to siphon the details of the sex from the man and the woman, just could not ever get his "dirt," so to speak. They couldn't give him that, because it was not ABOUT that. This is a work of art, and I am grateful to have seen it, to have felt it. -Cindy

This movie proves that a wonderful film will overcome a stupid title that can only attract the wrong kind of audience. From the very first frame it's clear that the two protagonists who met only in the interests of pure unadulterated (sorry about that) sex are going to fall in love and it's just a question of watching it happen and seeing if it ends in tears. Once you get past the basic flaw - the kind of people who resort to sex magazines to look for partners usually do so because conventional methods have failed. They are either too old, too ugly, too short, too fat (short AND fat will usually do it every time) in fact the LAST thing they are is as gorgeous and desirable as Nathalie Baye and as handsome as Sergi Lopez - this is a wonderful film and I'm delighted to add my voice to all those others who have praised it on this board. I saw it on release some six years ago, long before I even knew of this website and I've just seen it again and admired it even more. A definite ten out of ten.

My tag line says it all--the plot is OK, the actors are attractive and intelligent, but it didn't work for me--their sexual encounter was unconvincing, too "talky," and not intensely erotic--so the rest of the movie also seemed too cerebral and distant.

A movie about all of us - what we dream of doing, do for real or envy others who do it. The mere meetings of the couple are the fantasy. It's an everyday matter to experience a blind date, but it's a one-to-a thousand chance that it will be so perfect. Its perfection makes the ending so tragic. I was to a great extent shocked by the anonymity, in which the couple exists. And how can "he" realize that he doesn't know neither her name, nor her telephone numbler, nor ...anything, after so many months of regular closeness?! This movie definitely moved me with the simplicity of the story and the tragedy of human misunderstanding. Again, I was fascinated by the beauty of European films.

The story of a romance between two people - no names, no lives, only each other and the time they had together. It's beautiful. It's one of those movies that stabs at your heart every now and then. You know what you want to happen, but at the same time, you know it won't. I love Natalie Baye and Sergi Lopez. Both actors are incredible in their own rights and wonderful together. The characters that they helped create only further that. I love how there are no names, no phone numbers, no address. There's only each other and that room. As the viewer, we don't even get to see what happens in that room, except for the more normal scenes. At the end of the movie, I can't help but wonder... what happened in that room and I watch it over and over to find out what happens and I never do. If anyone does, let me know. I'm still dying to find out. At the end of the movie, anyone who's seen it, knows it ends with an unhappy ending, but I can't help but think it will end differently. I always watch it and wait, hoping for something I know won't happen. It makes it end all the more beautifully, despite the fact that I still think in my twisted little head that perhaps the 'behind the scenes' guys gave them their phone numbers and names and they ended up together. Of course, when I know that my version didn't go as planned, I feel a deep sorrow. It's like two of my best friends breaking up and ruining everyone's lives... Of course, everything makes it all the more beautiful. I also love the way that the movie is brought out. It's a fictional movie with fictional characters presented as a documentary.

Her (Nathalie Baye) places an ad in a magazine looking for a sexual partner to share her fantasy. He (Sergi Lopez) responds. They meet in a bistro on a gray afternoon in Paris and proceed to a nearby hotel. Their coupling is very satisfactory to them and they proceed to other encounters. All this is told in flashback with both speaking separately, and wistfully about what happened and how it ended. This is a fascinating story, appealingly told with sureness by director Frederic Foteyne and his attractive, expressive leads. Yes, their affair is casual, sexual and without the usual "meeting cute" baggage. Actually, I thought she was the engine that began and ended the affair. Lopez's character seems to be far more emotionally involved as the affair progress than Baye's. He responds to her responding to him and you can see him falling for her. Her speech to him about her feelings is quite startling and you think, maybe he's going to seek her commitment. A happy ending, though this is not one of those silly tearjerkers where you sit there embarrassed, would have been wrong and it's very satisfying. I loved this small, quiet, movie. The sex is very discreet. The dialoge is direct and thank goodness this is not a wordy movie. It doesn't need it. It's got a very good director in control of his material and two fine leads who tell you all you need to know. I just discovered Sergi Lopez was the villain in DIRTY PRETTY THINGS. He's a terrific screen presence. Someone mentioned CHAOS (in connection with their review of this film), another French film I recently discovered. Two more mature, well-written, well- acted and directed films could not be imagined. Highly recommended.

This little movie is simply sublime. I ran across it again when searching for more Sergi Lopez films. His range is simply amazing, from sensitive fantasy lover (as in this film) to the most dastardly twisted villain. I would be hard-pressed to think of any more talented male actor in European film today. I particularly liked him in "Dirty Pretty Things", due to its serious, thoughtful treatment of the pressures on immigrants. "A Friend Like Harry" was just great entertainment, humor of the darkest sort. "Une Liason Pornografique" is still another type of film altogether. The French produce many interesting films on sex, some successful, some less so. This is of the best I can recall from my own 20-year love affair with European art films. Another recent French film that I can whole-heartedly recommend is Coline Serreau's Chaos, which took several years to cross the ocean to the U.S., but was originally released in 2001. Also Chocolat by Claire Denys, another quiet but piercingly accurate character study.