Le Secret - 2000 * * 1/2

Desperately disappointed by this I wondered whether I had missed out something major that would have made me love it. But no, it really was just a not very good film. In short the film centres around a husband and wife who are supposedly happy until one day the woman ( who sells encyclopedias for a living) goes to a customers house and falls in lust with the man staying there temporarily. ( The man who ordered the encyclopedias is out of the country for a while so this other man is keeping house for him etc etc). An affair follows with all the excitement of a wet dishcloth and all the passion of a brick wall. Neither character seems to feel very comfortable shooting their sex scenes which in turn makes everyone watching feel like they are spying on someone's parents in bed. The selfishness of the woman who believes she isn't doing anything wrong because her lovely husband is simply not exciting enough really got on my nerves. There are loads more affair related movies out there that make you care deeply about the characters, but this was not one of them.