The Sentiment of the Flesh

The Sentiment of the Flesh is a French movie directed by Roberto Garzelli in 2010. The 92 minutes' movie describes the story of a passionate love between a radiologist and a doctoral student in anatomical drawing. They met during a medical examination. The young doctor, Benoit, takes a radiography of the "lungs" of the young woman when she initially asked one for her lower back. Helena sees the radiography when she returns to the clinic to get the novel she had inadvertently left there. She will worry all night long about the radio, and the next day she will say a few words to Benoit. And this is it, it's over: their life as they knew it will never be the same.

Like two magnets, nothing can take them off of one another. They repel and attract themselves indefinitely. Both fascinated by the human body, they explore one another.

However, because there is a "however", how far will their passion lead us? This combined passion for each other and for the human body will lead to unimaginable borders (I could never have guessed this ending!).

To tell you the truth, for the first 90 minutes, I thought it was a love like others, but violent, as many people can live sometimes. I thought it was a young woman who doubts about herself and wants to be loved at all costs by a man of "experience." I thought it was a radiologist who lets himslef be fooled by a young woman, but who is also trying to fight against his possessive tendencies.

I was wrong all along. The last two minutes will haunt me for sometimes!

How far love can go? How far passion can go? How far can you enter the intimacy of the loved one? What is the limit? But above all, does a limit really exist?