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''À l'aventure'' is a 2008 French
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film written and directed by
Jean-Claude Brisseau Jean-Claude Brisseau (; 17 July 1944 – 11 May 2019) was a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film ''Secret Things'' ("Choses Secrètes") and his 2006 film ''Les Anges Exterminateurs, The Exterminating Angels'' ("Les Anges exterminateurs"). ...
. The film showed at the 2009
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Plot

Sandrine, a young and childless woman, meets a friend for a sandwich lunch on a park bench. Also on the bench is an old man who tries to start a conversation. Her friend is annoyed and leaves, but Sandrine is intrigued by the old man's remarks: the seed of independence has been planted in her. She stands up to her boyfriend, who leaves her, and quits her dull job. In a café she sees Greg, a handsome young man who is studying a book on psychiatry, and asks him to tell her about it. They end up spending the afternoon in a hotel room making love. He asks her to a dinner party where she can meet Mina, a woman whose approach to a man is total submission, allowing him to do what he wants. He puts Mina under hypnosis and she regresses to being a Flemish nun in the 1400s. In time, Sandrine finds that her journey with Greg and Mina into multiple sexual and spiritual encounters is not bringing enlightenment or fulfilment. She tells the old man, who she has kept in touch with, and he says that it has all been immature and dangerous. He advises her to root herself back in reality.


Cast

* Carole Brana as Sandrine *
Arnaud Binard Arnaud Binard (born 18 January 1971 in Bordeaux) is a French people, French actor and producer mainly known for his roles in many romantic or detective Television in France, television hit-series broadcast throughout the French-speaking world s ...
as Greg *
Étienne Chicot Étienne Chicot (5 May 1949 – 7 August 2018) was a French actor and composer.Jocelyn Quivrin as Fred * Lise Bellynck as Sophie * Nadia Chibani as Mina * as Françoise * Frédéric Aspisi as Jérôme * Michèle Larue as Sandrine's mother * Manica Brini as Sandrine's sister


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* 2008 films 2008 drama films 2008 LGBTQ-related films 2000s erotic drama films 2000s French films 2000s French-language films 2000s LGBTQ-related drama films BDSM in films Films about female bisexuality Films about hypnosis Films directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau French erotic drama films French LGBTQ-related films Lesbian-related films {{erotic-film-stub