a film by Pascal Arnold
and Jean-Marc Barr
2006 | 94 mins | France
Lizzie Brocheré .... Lucie
Arthur Dupont .... Pierre
Guillaume Baché .... Nicolas
Pierre Perrier .... Sébastien
Nicolas Nollet .... Baptiste
Valérie Mairesse .... Agnès
Karl E Landler .... Paul
Matthieu Boujenah .... Damien
Jean-Christophe Bouvet .... Vincent
Pierre Beziers .... Lieutenant
Antoine Coesens .... M Saunier
Guillaume Gouix .... Romain
Claude Lecat .... Mme Saunier
One Two Another
/ Chacun Sa Nuit
a succulent cinematic cocktail of
overt sexuality and covert detection
Available on DVD as part of the
Peccadillo Pictures catalogue
www.peccadillopod.com
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Headed by patriarchal bother and sister duo Pierre and Lucie; childhood friends Nicolas,
Sébastien and Baptiste live for life. Whether that be playing in their rock band,
out clubbing, getting drunk, having sex, or for that matter sharing their most
intimate thoughts with each other in the lush countryside of the
Aix-en-Provence region of southern France.
Open with both their minds and bodies, all are frequently to be seen naked next to each other in
typical French fashion. Or is it? For a year apart but otherwise together in every sense of the
word, the bond between Pierre and Lucie is one so intense, that it walks on incestuous ground.
Only when a relationship is that deep, what happens when one half of the same whole goes
missing, only to be later found savagely beaten to death? In short, just how far is a
sister prepared to go to discover the identity of the guilty party responsible for
the murder of her brother; namely two hearts that once beat as one, to another.
Pushing the boundaries of the brother / sister relationship to the edge, Pascal Arnold and
Jean-Marc Barr cast their directorial net wide to deliver a sensual work that is more than just
a film concerned with the reactions of a close-knit group of friends to the tragic death of one
of their own. For this is a succulent cinematic cocktail of overt sexuality and covert detection,
a sexual whodunit of the French cinema style. And yet the story of Pierre is told by way of
memory, as before you know it he is removed from the films present tense only to surface
in a multitude of flashbacks, sequences that relate his narcissistic nature, bisexuality
and rampant desire for sex of whatever kind, including a lucrative sideline
in sexual intimacy of the paid variety.
Then again, sexual relations are in abundance here, mixing as easily as the male and female
nudity between the uninhibited members of the group. Namely a fine cast of good looking actors
headed by Lizzie Brocheré who excels in her portrayal of a girl not opposed to using
her feminine charms to solve a crime that the police have long since deemed as the work
of out-of-towners. Only if the mystery identify fails to be a surprise to some,
what will however be a revelation to many is the impact that the closing
scenes of the film have on the events depicted.
For the most powerful aspect of this physical piece, is not the way it openly handles gay,
straight, bi, group, voyeuristic or even incestuous relations, but in how it makes us
look at the youth of today and the seemingly endless series of violent attacks,
often fatal, that habitually make the news; incidents that for some
will forever beckon the unanswered question of why?
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