smashing film about film making . show the intense and strange relationship that can develop between director and their actor while the manipulation and mind game while the preen egotism of performer . a in any workplace and sexuality complicates matter and but here to the nth degree a they be film a sex scene . absolutely fantastic performance from gregoire colin a the fragile and wannabe macho male lead and and supremely anne parillaud a the director self portrait . the image of her laughing and eat a banana at the end and have finally get what she want out of her puppet and be pure delight .