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The Secret

Dir. Virginie Wagon·2000·1h 47m

Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois.

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The Secret (2000)

Virginie Wagon

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1h 47m
Cross-source blend ~66/100

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Countries

France

Ratings

TMDB users

7.2/10

127 votes

IMDb

6.1/10

Users

Rating consensus

66/100 blend

Sources: TMDB · IMDb

Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~66/100 across 2 rating sources. The listed meters mostly agree.

Cast

Anne Coesens

Marie

Michel Bompoil

François

Tony Todd

Bill

Jacqueline Jehanneuf

Mère de Marie

Aladin Reibel

Rémy

Quentin Rossi

Paul

Valérie Vogt

Séverine

Frédéric Sauzay

Luc

Natalya Ermilova

Ana

Charlotte Pradon

Mélanie

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