Héléna, who is pursuing a degree in anatomical drawing meets Benoît, a radiologist and professor, when she sees him for X-rays after complaining of lower back pain. Their mutual interest in human anatomy draws them into an intense relationship where they explore each others bodies in unconventional ways. Héléna has a photographic memory, and and uses it to create detailed drawings of the human body and its internal organs. Benoît develops a fetish-like obsession with the human skeleton and internal organs while working with X-ray and MRI images. The MRI imagery even becomes an art medium to him, stimulating his fetish.
After no cause for the back pain is found on Héléna's X-rays, Benoît offers to examine her with the MRI machine. Héléna agrees, and Benoît's insatiable curiosity about the internal details of Héléna's body leads to increasingly dangerous acts of exploration.
Héléna (Annabelle Hettmann) and Benoît (Thibault Vinçon), are a fairly attractive young couple with good on-screen chemistry. The directing and camera work were good. The screenplay was good enough to hold my interest, but with a major flaw. There is a dramatic plot twist about half way through that is inexplicable to me. I watched the movie all the way through twice, and I can only conclude that the writer wanted to insert some drama, without being too concerned about developing it plausibly. The subtitles contained many incorrect translations. However, the translation errors didn't affect the meaning significantly, and may just be a result of the translator taking liberties.
The writer went for extreme shock, in a morbid way for the ending. I think this was overdone, and a decent storyline was instantly reduced to cheesy, laughable, B-movie status.
After no cause for the back pain is found on Héléna's X-rays, Benoît offers to examine her with the MRI machine. Héléna agrees, and Benoît's insatiable curiosity about the internal details of Héléna's body leads to increasingly dangerous acts of exploration.
Héléna (Annabelle Hettmann) and Benoît (Thibault Vinçon), are a fairly attractive young couple with good on-screen chemistry. The directing and camera work were good. The screenplay was good enough to hold my interest, but with a major flaw. There is a dramatic plot twist about half way through that is inexplicable to me. I watched the movie all the way through twice, and I can only conclude that the writer wanted to insert some drama, without being too concerned about developing it plausibly. The subtitles contained many incorrect translations. However, the translation errors didn't affect the meaning significantly, and may just be a result of the translator taking liberties.
The writer went for extreme shock, in a morbid way for the ending. I think this was overdone, and a decent storyline was instantly reduced to cheesy, laughable, B-movie status.