All the horny details !
This French film 2004 tells the story of a unique relationship between two women involved with the same man, one experience is through fantasy, another for reality.<br /><br />Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is  married  to a gynecologist Katherine (Fanny Ardant).  The 25 year marriage has drifted, lacking sexual and/or intimate times.  They have drifted apart and occasionally he cheats on the side.  They both admit that the marriage is going sour and after all those souring years Katherine decides to find out what does turn him on, what pleasures does he enjoy.<br /><br />She wanders to a gentlemen's club and meets Nathalie (Emmanuelle Beart) a strikingly beautiful prostitute.  Katherine propositions Nathalie to entice and seduce her husband, and report the experience back to her.  Katherine pays the prostitute.  The two women often meet at the gentlemen's club and Katherine learns and lives her sexual fantasy through Nathalie's experiences which include sexually graphic language.<br /><br />Much of the action takes place at the home of Katherine but also at the beautiful gentlemen's club.  Depardieu's role is supporting and takes a backseat to Ardant's and Beart's major roles.  The pacing is even and watching this, it keeps one wondering what the next step will be for the three characters involved.<br /><br />Director Anne Fontaine's filmography includes extensive roles as an actor, writer, and director.  We see Fontaine at work in a short feature piece for the Making of  Nathalie.<br /><br />The French film made in 2004 is now a remake [[ASIN:B0037QGS0A Chloe]] 2009 that stars Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore.  ......Rizzo