L’école de le chair is an unsentimental, refreshingly honest portrayal of two people’s quest for emotional and sexual fulfilment. One the one hand, there is the career woman, Dominique, who is divorced, apparently has little time for men, but is clearly longing for some rough trade. Then there is Quentin, the promiscuous bisexual layabout, who is barely out of his teens and thinks about nothing but sex and arcade games. They meet by chance and are instantly drawn to one another. They are complete opposites, having nothing in common at all except a dangerous craving for sexual adventure. —James Travers

Director

Benoît Jacquot

Benoît Jacquot was born in Paris in 1947. He was the assistant to various directors before making his first film, L’Assassin Musicien in 1975. Fifteen films followed, such as Les enfants du placard, Les ailes de la colombe, La Ddsenchantée, La fille seule_, Le septième ciel, Pas de scandale, Sade, Tosca and Adolphe. He has worked with, among others, actors like Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, Virginie Ledoyen, Fabrice Luchini and Daniel Auteuil. L’école de la chair was selected in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 and A tout de suite in the Un Certain Regard section in 2004. He has also directed numerous documentaries and features for television, such as Princesse Marie in 2003 with Catherine Deneuve. In the fall of 2004 he directed Werther by Massenet at the Royal Opera in London"s Covent Garden. He is finishing a screenplay based on a novel by Moravia and is preparing… read more