Movie review: Sexy champion meeting in Paris 13th arrondissement

Paris' 13th

arrondissement, also known as Les Olympiades (which is also the original title), is a district known for its young multi-cult population and tall buildings - in one of the latter, Emelie lives in her grandmother's apartment.

Emelie is a young woman with a sharp tongue and a job at a call center where she is fired for insulting a customer.

To raise money, she gets a resident, which happens to be the young teacher Camille and the two become fucking bosses fairly immediately - until Camille thinks they are starting to get too tight and declares that they should stop having sex.

In the same district we meet Nora, a slightly older (30-something) woman from Bordeaux who has come to resume her university education but soon gets into trouble and instead starts working at a brokerage firm, where Camille has also taken a job to support herself in the meantime he will write that dissertation that is never written.

A trio is formed, welded together by irritability, jealousy and a whole host of other tricky emotions.

Does it sound messy?

It is not.

After all, it is Jacques Audiard (direction and script) and Céline Sciamma (script) who keep the threads.

Just like in all of Audiard's films, the story emerges as an unstoppable matter of course.

The everyday life that can pass unnoticed in most others' hands brings life and pregnancy to Audiard;

and brings us firmly into the lives of the characters.

And perhaps one can attribute to Sciamma the extra sensual tone, the non-erotic attitude to sex.

Regardless of who the source is, it is uplifting to see the nuanced staging of that activity, which all too often is either hidden under unrealistically rinsing sheets or smacked on the canvas as gynecological case studies.

Here, sex is fun,

enjoyable, irresponsible, serious, complicated and easy as pie.

Part of life.

Important but not vital.

Thankfully, Audiard / Sciamma also breaks the old reactionary film rules by portraying a young woman who lives out her sexuality in eager Twinkling, without her being punished for it in one way or another.

Jacques Audiard, like few others, has moved frictionlessly across genre and mood boundaries.

Has given us masterful works such as

,

and

.

Céline Sciamma is not far behind with titles such as

,

and

.

that the drama is created by two of France's foremost filmmakers, expectations were of course sky high (the black and white photo and the triangle dynamics between Nora, Emelie and Camille also make the old French classic

move in the frame of reference) but really those heights does not reach

.

At the same time, the duo has an extremely high minimum level, which means that their easy creation is more worth seeing than most other things in the repertoire.