I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

CHACUN SA NUIT (ONE TO ANOTHER) - CATCH IT ( B ) Chacun Sa Nuit is about One girl having sexual relationships with her 3 friends and Brother. A sexual relationship between a Sister and Her Brother is quite disturbing, shocking and provocative. According to the director the movie is based upon the true events occur in France, now how much reality in that is no one knows. After watching this movie I realize that French people are quite bold and provocative then I've expected. The movie is good though it rolls back & forth between Present time and Flashbacks, which takes time to understand. The movie touches various taboo topics like Sister and Brother sexual relation, Bisexuality, gay sex, guys having sex for money & girl seducing people to get out the facts about who killed here Brother. The Whole setup of the movie is quite artistic though when you are totally engage in the story and nakedness of the movie, the ending is quite Awful & for the Director to say that Adolescent let you do crimes like killing other person without any general motive is unbelievable. Who know what happened in real life but for cinema it's just not acceptable. The stars of movie are young and beautiful; apparently they are naked and soak under Sun naked most of the time. Lizzie Brochere looks quite beautiful & she isn't shy in being naked on screen. All the other guys, Arthur Dupont (Pierre), Guillaume Bache (Nicolas), Pierre Perrier (Sebastien) and Nicolas Nollet (Baptiste) are good looking young boys. My final verdict is, watch it for the Skin & Sex in the movie, who doesn't like beautiful people laying naked all the time? But if you're looking for a master piece with satisfying suspenseful ending it disappoints a little.

Very French! This film embraces the physical reality of living just as conspicuously as American films avoid it. The film centers on five young adults: Lucie, her bisexual brother Pierre, and their friends Nicolas, Sebastien and Baptiste. The young men play together in a band and enjoy rocking local audiences. The viewer has to pay attention - the film is part murder mystery and follows Lucie's thoughts in the form of flashbacks. I'd recommend watching it twice: first for immersion and second for appreciation and understanding.In terms of cinematography, this movie is beautiful - featuring sumptuous, rich color. The beautiful actors add to the appeal, but other reviewers have made slightly too much of their attractiveness. I could go to my local shopping mall on a busy night and find five young adults as physically fit and attractive as the main actors in "Chacun sa nuit." The difference is in the U.S. - with its current of quirky religious extremism, its tendency towards irrational hysteria, and its servile pandering to pressure groups - it would be extremely difficult to craft a movie as honest and authentic as "Chacun sa nuit." (It is worth noting that this film is based on real events.) Let's just say the French are often very forthright in depicting the physical beauty that is the special province of young adulthood, and they reveal it without censorship or hand-wringing. All the nudity is positive in tone.Because of our strong vein of Puritanical dualism, Americans often make films that pit the soul and body (or two characters representing soul and body) in a battle against each other. Have you ever noticed how many U.S. films feature a pitched showdown between an impossibly good character and an impossibly bad character? French films, on the other hand, often feature the soul and body complementing and informing each other - in effect going off to explore together. This often makes it easier for French film-makers to celebrate and savor life in their movies - including accepting the sexual aspects of living. Also, there is no aversion to sorrow.The relationships here are not Disney-fied, rather they are intense and intimate. Pierre and Lucie as brother and sister are devoted to each other; they stop a millimeter short of full-blown incest. Some of the dialog between the two comes perilously close to being pretentious. But everything is incredibly poignant to the point where you almost feel you could reach out to the screen and touch them.But all is not rainbows, poetry and love-making in provincial France. Someone hustles for money on the side and there is a murder - seediness and iniquity thereby enter in. The solution to the murder implies what may be an unanswerable series of questions: 1) Does untrammeled freedom lead to the total evaporation of morals? 2) Is there an extreme Puritan inside all of us demanding that we "punish" ourselves and others for celebrating freedom, welcoming sexual joy, and savoring life? 3) Could an overzealous desire for freedom and an internalized pious tyrant be toxic co-conspirators paving the way to ruin? "Chacun sa nuit" is a film to indulge in - like a bottle of Bordeaux with a sirloin roast.

We've all heard of a "ménage à trois." Pascal Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr's film One to Another/Chacun sa nuit presents a ménage à cinq, an ultra-photogenic one with four boys to one girl, all tanned, pretty, and hot to trot and in the summer in a beautiful southern part of France. At the center of the five is the insecure but magnetic lead singer of the clan's boy band, Pierre (Arthur Dupont) He's the bisexual brother of Lucie (Lizzie Brocheré), with whom he has a relationship just short of out-and-out incest. Nicolas (Guillaume Baché) is also bisexual, so he and Pierre have sex on the sly. Sébastien (Pierre Perrier), the prettiest boy of all, is Lucie's ostensible boyfriend, but she's had sex with the other two. Baptiste (Nicolas Nollet) is boy number four. It's not so good for the story but fine for the vicarious titillation value of the film that the clothes come off right away and there are many bed and swim scenes; and while there isn't much overt sex, there is much casual nude lolling around together among the nearly inseparable five. Pierre also has sex for pay with gay men and orgies with a local politico, and we get glimpses of that, too.In a story based on a real event in provincial France, this inseparable group of young beauties is shattered when Pierre is found dead, riddled with blows. The cops draw a blank and Lucie initiates her own investigation aided by the other boys. When the solution comes, the crime remains incomprehensible, even though who did it had become predictable.Pierre has an intensity you notice, and he sings. Lizzie Brocheré emotes, Guillaume Baché has a way of holding back that's arresting; but despite the film's obsessive concentration on these young people, they seem chosen not for their acting skill but because they're generically perfect looking, with the result that it takes much of the film to gather even a vague sense of what distinguishes one boy from the others.People are understandably enamored of One to Another/Chacun sa nuit for its lovely sensuality. From that point of view, it's a pleasure to look at. But the crime story and the beefcake are at odds with each other, the pretentious philosophizing of the young people is a poor substitute for acting, and the too-randomly inter-cut flashbacks after the death to flesh out the superficial portraits weaken the momentum of the hunt. According the Le Monde's reviewer Jacques Mandelbaum, One to Another "rises to the challenge of achieving a strong confrontation between the filmmakers' hedonistic philosophy and a barbarous act that resists it." Is it our Puritanical Anglo-Saxon culture? Somehow this seems unconvincing. But the images are beautiful. Jean-Marc Barr's second film was called Too Much Flesh. Hmmm…… Opened in Paris September 20, 2006. To be shown at the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at Lincoln Center March 7 and 10, and at the IFC Center March 8, 2007. US distributor: Netflix/Strand Releasing. Should do well in the DVD sales and rental market.

Pierre and Lucie, brother and sister, are in a full sexual development swing with their friends, until one day, Pierre does not come home. The question of the movie is what happened to him. The curiosity of the movie, is how Lucie goes about finding out. We follow her as she uses the only power she has discovered, her body, to try to obtain answers in a micro- cosmos of perversity and sexual adolescent indulgence. It is unfortunate that the movie suffers from a confusion from start to finish, due partly to the resemblance of the characters, partly to the bizarre nature of the script and partly to the (time-frame) editing. Consequently, the audience loses interest in what could have been an original youthful tale. Lucie's manipulation of others through their desire for her body is taken as her strength, which, even if taken as unfortunate, does not evolve into a more mature version. Character development is perhaps a lot asked for a group of youngsters, but a little more character would have helped. If you venture into the dark hall for this one, make sure its late and you are tired. You will leave with the inspirational originality of the sexual/ amorous melange without being too affected by the overall work. But beware of just being lulled into the realms of your own faraway dreamworld.