the confusion here be more a plethora and an embarrassment of rich and of choice . at the center of every scene be bisexual ( or be he just gay . ) lawyer alain ( pascal greggory ) . everybody want him and or think he want them handsome imprisoned murderer marc ( vincent martinez ) and cute gay boy christophe ( cyrille thouvenin ) and attractive and accomplished law partner laurence ( nathalie richard and who more alain age ) while the prisoner ( former ) girlfriend babette ( julie gayet ) while marc prison mate étienne ( noted singer alain bashung ) even get amusingly involve at the end . alain and his law partner be talk about marrying and and it all practical and boring and except that it impulsive too . through it all pascal greggory have that bore and annoy look he always have while but he register a lot of other look too he a skillful movie actor and for good reason one of the busy in france . this be very french and a sort of comedy of ill humor and sex and and indecision . the hilariously grumpy and irritable haute bourgeoisie relative of laurence and alain who come into play when wedding bell be in the off include the great bulle ogier a laurence mother . the various nude scene aren not just titillation while theyre all skillfully and sometimes hilariously illustrative of character and situation and of alain embarras du choix . la confusion de genre be dry and amusing and well pace and have an excellent cast but it very french and you wouldn not necessarily expect it to go over well with american and and it do not . u critic pretty much hat it . on metacritic it get a 39. many american viewer think it pretentious and unfunny . they miss the witty but blunt dialogue ( which all the french critic complement ) and and they do not appreciate greggory and who perfect here and or the delicately observed range of french social and personality type . this be as good a treatment of the pain and pleasure of the bisexual life a see from the french 21st century standpoint a and at the time and be john schlesinger very english ( 1971 ) sunday bloody sunday while but a a movie it doesn not carry quite as much weight and clearly like some wine it do not travel well . do the voice over commentary in english for the american dvd do not turn out very well either . director duran cohen study at nyu film school and and be fluent and but he pair with greggory and thouvenin and whore pretty tongue tie and and the conversation never get go . why do not they do it in french with subtitle a kassovitz and cassel and and reno do so entertainingly for the u crimson river dvd . then maybe they would have be more relaxed and talkative and a the crimson river team be and and something more informative would have result .