24.11.12

Sexual Chronicles of a French Family



Breakfast time where the awkward silence is sometimes a burden, dinner where everything is discussed except sex, the routine of a contemporary family is disrupted when Romain, the youngest son, is caught masturbating in Biology class, filming the act with his iPhone. He is going to be suspended from school. Romain explains to his mother that it was a dare the other students have amongst themselves, just for fun. He just stupidly got caught. Sex having been a taboo subject in the family up to now, it suddenly becomes the main subject as we become involved in the intimate lives of each element of this family: the parents, the 18, 20 and 22-year-old children, and the grandfather. 

directed by Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold