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Dry Cleaning

1997, Movie, NR, 97 mins

Dry Cleaning: Review

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How do a pair of happily married, profoundly bourgeois dry cleaners end up enmeshed in an erotic triangle with a youthful transvestite cabaret artist, and what happens when they do? That's the question that drives actress-turned-filmmaker Anne Fontaine's unsettling erotic drama, released in France in 1997. Married for 15 years, Nicole and Jean-Marie Kunstler (Miou-Miou, Charles Berling) live in the provincial French town of Belfort and run the dry cleaning store Jean-Marie took over from his aging mother. Their lives are a comfortable routine of work, socializing and familiar intimacies, until the fateful night they join friends at local naughty nightclub. The floor show features brother and sister act Loic and Marylin (Stanislas Merhar, Mathilde Seigner), who, dressed in identical gold lame dresses, perform an erotic routine that the older couple finds perversely stimulating. Though it at first appears that Nicole and Jean-Marie will become entangled with both provocative siblings, it is in fact only the androgynously sensual Loic who enters their lives: At loose ends when Marylin impulsively runs away with a bartender (presumably because she's desperate for a way out of their suffocatingly close relationship), Loic moves in with the Kunstlers and becomes their protégé, surrogate son and more. Though this could be direct-to-video erotic thriller territory, Fontaine's film is something far more subtle and less sensationalistic: Its sleazy frissons are wrapped in psychologically twisted angst, and it comes to a bleakly disturbing end. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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