Passion Simple (2020)

Cold Romantic Drama - Passion Simple review by GI

A somewhat cold drama about obsessive love. Laetitia Dosch plays Hélène, a divorced mother and University lecturer who begins a passionate relationship with a slightly dodgy Russian diplomat, played with cool indifference by former ballet dancer Sergei Pollunin. There's some very crude sex scenes, it's actually all they appear to do together, as Hélène talks of love her lover seems to be just using her. He's married and takes off every so often leaving her in a bit of a state. When he returns to Moscow she falls into a deep depression. The film drifts around with much idle talk in between rough bonking. Overall it's a rather dull film although Dosch manages to capture the hell of loneliness and abandonment very well