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Dressage

1986 · 98 min

A frothy, cynical French sex comedy where scheming aristocrats and a vengeful young woman trade seduction and sabotage with arch amusement.

Directed by: Pierre B. Reinhard
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Véronique Catanzaro, Patrick Guillemin, Marc Henry

Overview: At a gathering of would-be society debauchees, the Baron Plessis de Regard and the attractive young Nathalie hatch their individual plans to use sex to respectively ruin and punish their selected enemies. The Baron's plan is to scupper the political ambitions of right-wing parliamentary candidate Colonel Montvilliers by setting him up with a female companion and publicly exposing his new-found vices. Nathalie's quest is of a more personal nature, to destroy her estranged father Charles Leroy-Merville by corrupting his innocent 17-year-old daughter Sophie, a task she intends to achieve by securing employ as the girl's summer tutor.

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Directed by: Pierre B. Reinhard
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Véronique Catanzaro, Patrick Guillemin, Marc Henry

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Tone: satiricalstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: revenge
betrayal
class
power
family
Places: single country house
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	6
Realism	6
Romance	6
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	3

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Genres: comedy, romance
Directed by: Pierre B. Reinhard
Written by: Jean-Philippe Berger, Jean-Claude Roy
Starring: Véronique Catanzaro, Patrick Guillemin, Marc Henry, Henri-Jacques Huet, André Nader, Sylvie Novak, Katya Strambi, Cornélia Wilms
Runtime: 98 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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