It would appear that either no one in the UK has watched this film or, if they have, have not seen fit to post a comment. When you append a note to a movie that it is 'based on real events' you can get away with just about anything. Nine times out of ten the 'real' events are both provincial and obscure and by definition known only to a few so that the filmmaker(s) - two in this case - can give free rein to their fancies. So here we have five inseparable young people, four male and one female with the four guys working as a reasonably successful boy-band and the girl functioning as a groupie in the sense that she has sex with all four, including her brother, Pierre, who, having been beaten to death, supplies what plot there is in the shape of Lucie (the girl, and his sister) engaging on an obsessive quest to discover the culprit or, as it transpires, culprits plural. The lyrical camera-work and almost mandatory nudity and simulated sex define it as 'art house' fodder and the non-linear unravelling of the plot confirms this status. Probably worth a look.

Based upon actual events, this film is certainly not for everyone's tastes, but it is an intriguing, erotic, and fascinating watch. I'm not sure a film such as this could be made in the United States because of the nudity and overt sex that takes place amongst the young actors. It appears that here in the good old U.S.A., we know such things take place, but we don't seem to be able to admit it. Oh, it's fine to show teenagers killing each other, but heaven forbid that they take off their clothes and have so good, old steamy sex. Hopefully, these statements have sufficiently warned you that - if you view this film - you're going to see people under the legal age nude and engaging in sensuous acts. As one reviewer on this site put it, "The whole cast is beautiful, like they were born not to wear clothes." The story is of five, young friends - one girl and four boys - who enjoy life. Their relationship is symbiotic and sexual in various ways. One of the boys is the girl's brother and the alpha male of the group. He is handsome, sensual, and especially engaging - a master of social and sexual relationships. In addition to being the leader of the group's successful band, he is a high-class hustler engaging in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships. He is murdered - savagely beaten to death.Is the relationship between the girl and her brother incestuous? It is left for the viewer to determine if they ever had intercourse, but it is made clear in the film that they fully explore each other's bodies and sensual psyches. Both the girl and her brother do engage in sex with one or more of the other boys. - all of this in a very open fashion.The action in the film is not linear which presents somewhat of a job for the viewer to piece together all of the various events and relationships in the film. Most of the film is from the girl's viewpoint as her mind jumps here and there remembering events before and after her brother's death. She is so devastated by the death that she has had a breakdown. Her mental anguish is made worse by the fact that the murderer of her brother is unknown, and that the police have exhausted most of their leads. She is obsessed with the thought of finding her brother's killer.Unlike many French films, all is revealed in the end, and the viewer is left to consider a mesmerizing work of cinematic art highlighting excellent acting and bold depictions of the sexual lives of five young people.

I think is is best to see this movie twice. At least, it was for me. The first time around it was a jumbled mess, but after a second viewing it made some sense. The movie is really about incest. The fact that the brother is killed almost becomes secondary to the sexual action. The sister, played by Lizzie Brochere, spends a lot of her time nude and engaged in simulated sex. She wants to find the killer of her brother. So anybody that had anything to do with that incident, gets to, if not see her naked, a chance to test the tightness of her vagina. Apparently, since they were teenagers, the siblings have been engaged in sex. And not only does she make it with her brother, she makes it with all of his friends. The French are really good at these sort of movies where sex and nudity dominate. An American version would probably resulted in a teen comedy with the males humping Boston cream pies. If naked people and simulated sex do not offend you, check out this movie.

I shuffled into this film in a sur-le-vif kind of way, on a whim, while running about town. I was twenty minutes late. The young naked bodies thrown everywhere made a good impression. The protagonist girl, with her swarthy yet subtle, austere, French, and you can guess, sexual contradictory nature, energized me to some degree. The voice over, her running around with invective in her blood, trying to find out the murderer, energized me sexually even further, with just a tinge greater intensity than I would have been sensually energized if she had not been running around with such an imperative. The film has a calm energy which is interesting, viewed in this way. The sexuality does not have an energized imperative, as it does, perennially and ubiquitously, in all forms here in the United states.Which is nice. The orgy in which everyone participates is calm, so European, sex as it is perhaps among many sea turtles doing it, simultaneously. The murderers are found, the film finally ends in a French nihilistic sort of way. This is the way to enjoy this film, which is to say it is better to watch it for mood instead of story.