Curiosa (2019)
A poet’s daughter marries money, beds the man she loves, and turns his camera into a weapon of seduction in this wickedly stylish Belle Époque affair.
Marie de Heredia is clever, beautiful and born into a celebrated literary family that has prestige to spare but very little cash. Two poets circle her: Henri de Régnier, wealthy, respectable and painfully earnest, and his friend Pierre Louÿs, a handsome traveller, libertine and collector of erotic photographs. Marie loves Pierre, but when financial reality comes knocking, she marries Henri to rescue her father from debt. Pierre takes the rejection badly and escapes to Algeria, returning with the alluring Zohra and enough exotic swagger to make domestic virtue look like a poor bargain. Marie may now be another man’s wife, but she has no intention of becoming a well-behaved ornament. She resumes her affair with Pierre, first as his lover and photographic model, then increasingly as his creative accomplice. Their private studio becomes...
a playground of naked poses, mirrors, stories and sexual dares, with Zohra joining their games and Henri gradually realizing that the marriage he bought cannot command Marie’s desire. What begins as Pierre’s fantasy of possessing women through his camera quietly changes shape: Marie learns how to direct the sessions, invents provocative tales to excite and unsettle him, photographs him in return and discovers that words can exert as much power as flesh. Pierre remains irresistibly charming but hopelessly restless, forever chasing the next woman, journey or sensation, and his disappearances leave Marie suspended between jealousy, humiliation and hunger. Rather than retreat, she experiments with another lover, tests the limits of her remarkably tolerant husband and begins turning her emotional chaos into literature. Lou Jeunet shoots all this less as a dutiful biography than as a teasing contest over who controls the image—the photographer, the model, the lover or the storyteller. The film can be dramatically uneven, and its second half occasionally repeats the same cycle of lust, absence and wounded pride, but its best moments have a wonderfully intimate charge. Beneath the breasts, bedsheets and literary mischief is a melancholy story about wanting a person who is constitutionally incapable of belonging to anyone. Pierre awakens Marie, but Marie eventually becomes the more interesting creature: a woman learning that being desired is pleasurable, while controlling the desire may be better still.
The story unfolds around 1895, amid the poets, salons and discreetly filthy appetites of Belle Époque Paris. It was filmed in Paris and the surrounding Île-de-France region, with locations including Parc Monceau, the Musée d’Ennery and elegant streets in the city’s western districts. Don’t expect a stiff museum-piece reconstruction: the wallpaper, floral details, Japanese-influenced framing, old-camera imagery and playful electronic score give it the vibe of a decadent period scrapbook remixed by someone with an Eighties synth collection. It feels warm, enclosed and slightly unreal, as though everyone is living inside an erotic photograph that has just begun to breathe.
Noémie Merlant carries the film with bold, intelligent sensuality, moving convincingly from watchful young bride to assured lover, model and author of her own games. Her dark eyes do nearly as much work as her frequently naked body, and she gives Marie an appealing mixture of softness, mischief and steel. Camélia Jordana’s Zohra brings a more relaxed, earthy allure, particularly when the two women share Pierre’s lens and attention. The nudity is abundant and frontal, the simulated sex candid, and the photographic posing deliberately voyeuristic, but it never becomes hardcore. This is polished arthouse erotica: plenty of bare skin, pubic hair, male nudity, intimate touching and beautifully arranged bodies, served with poetry, jealousy and expensive wallpaper.
Scenes from a passionate love story set in 1895 Paris, featuring the Super Gorgeous Noémie Merlant ❤️🔥 loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs & Marie de Régnier.
Set in 1895 Paris, Curios (2019) is a passionate french love story set against a backdrop of newly discovered Sexual Freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th-century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier, featuring the Incredibly Beautiful French actress & film maker Noémie Merlant.
Long story short, the Movie had a weak plot but Great Aesthetics andthe Delicious Brunette Noémie Merlant is a Hot-as-Fire 🔥🔥 French Aristocrat woman and probably the Only reason to watch this film. It doesn’t really matter that her nipples are asymmetrical, one facing upwards and the other downwards, She is still Damn Hot and a Delight to see naked.
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