“Iris and the Men”, an ode to feminine desire

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Cinema: Iris and men, an ode to feminine desire

The comedy Iris and the Men is carried by Laure Calamy, who, in the midst of a mid-life crisis, starts using dating applications. – (France 2)

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France 2 – S.Desjars, S.Gorny, E.Cousin, S.Thiebaut, B.de Saint-Jore

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This comedy released on Wednesday is carried by Laure Calamy who, in the middle of a mid-life crisis, starts using dating applications.

Iris (Laure Calamy) is a married woman, in her forties, who turns to adultery. Dating apps open up unsuspected horizons for him. “This story is banal and accepted for a man, as if it were natural for him to go and explore everything goes his desire, while a woman, it still remains problematic”explains Laure Calamy about this film released Wednesday January 3.

Iris has it all: job, loving husband, lovely family and beautiful apartment. But she just wants to reconnect with desire. She therefore continues fleeting, sometimes comical encounters in other arms. For her, it’s a metamorphosis.

Dealing with adultery “without guilt”

“By doing this, she opens the door and brings desire, life into this couple”explains actor Vincent Elbazwho plays Iris’s husband. The caustic humor won over the first spectators. “It was interesting to deal with adultery or cheating without guilt”underlines a woman just out of the cinema. This film is in tune with the times, a third of French said he had already used a dating site.


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