Americans
Shane and June Brown fly to Paris for their honeymoon, but unbeknownst
to his virginal young wife Shane has more important things on his
mind than romancing her in the City of Light. Years ago, as a scientist
experimenting with the human libido, he became an unfortunate guinea
pig. Now, as his lycanthropic lust for flesh increases with his sexual
desire and he fantasizes about devouring the innocent June, Shane
seeks out his former collaborator, Léo, who is working on a
cure for the condition. Léo’s wife Coré is also
afflicted, but much more gravely. She has degenerated into a mute
libidinous beast famished for sex and flesh, and Léo tries
to keep her locked inside the house to prevent her gorging on male
conquests she picks up on the roadside. A radical departure in form,
genre and subject matter from her previous film, Beau Travail,
Denis here delves into the realm of B-movie horror, but pares down
the plot to a minimum in order to foreground the very textures of
feral desire--the human body, clothed, naked, submerged in water or
smeared with blood; the expectant, starched white sheets of a hotel
bed; a peaceful, ominous Parisian twilight--and to explore the violent
primeval hunger which, the film suggests, lies at the base of the
urge for sex.
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