Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Meet Me at the Club
  • Chris & Martina: The Final Set
  • Dreamboi
  • Shelter
  • When the Mind's Free
  • Stronger Together
  • Are You Afraid of the '90s?
  • Liminal
  • Four Girls
  • Possible Days - Trilogy on Tenderness
  • Rita Moreira: chronicles, memories and videotape
  • Me Niego Rotundamente
  • Lo Noy
  • Bombacha
  • Amor Trava
  • Man I Love (The)
  • Loves Company
  • Our Colors Never Fade
  • Mayflies
  • Tracy & Martina: Goin' Out West
  • Test
  • Portrait of the Father at 71
  • What we did in the Shadows
  • Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
  • Movement Song
  • My Name
  • Miss You, Love You
  • Twice the Beast
  • Two Weeks In
  • Umjolo: There Is No Cure
  • Barefoot Boy
  • New Fears Eve
  • In the Grey
  • Black Ball (The)
  • Moss & Freud
  • Social Sin (The)
  • F*ck Drugs
  • Emergency Exit
  • MACDO
  • Proud

School of Flesh (The)

Country: France, Language: French, 105 mins

Original Title

L'École de la Chair
  • Director: Benoît Jacquot
  • Writer: Jacques Fieschi; Yukio Mishima
  • Producer: Zakaria Alaoui; Vincent Malle

CGiii Comment

Would a woman really humiliate herself to this extent...for a young, bisexual hustler?

That's the question you have to ask yourself - if you believe it is possible...then, this is a gentle investigation into the workings of such an ill-fated relationship.

If not, then, this is a complete waste of time.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided [and sometimes hindered] by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances.

Cast & Characters

Isabelle Huppert as Dominique;
Vincent Martinez as Quentin;
Vincent Lindon as Chris;
Marthe Keller as Madame Thorpe;
François Berléand as Soukaz;
Danièle Dubroux as Dominique's Friend;
Bernard Le Coq as Cordier;
Roxane Mesquida as Marine;
Jean-Louis Richard as M. Thorpe;
Jean-Claude Dauphin as Louis-Guy;
Michelle Goddet as Quentin's Mother;