Fifty shades even more ridiculous

Cinema Wednesdays - Jonas Follonier

The Grey couple is back on the big screen. This third and final film in a saga that we hope will be consigned to oblivion opens with Christian and Anastasia's wedding in style. This is followed by a honeymoon in Paris, then a trip to the beach - in the face of so many clichés, one immediately thinks of Flaubert and his Dictionnaire des idées reçues or Catalogue des opinions chic PARIS: La grande prostituée. Paradise for women, hell for horses. [...] ITALY: Must be seen immediately after marriage. Gives many disappointments, is not as beautiful as they say.«

And the handcuffs and spankings start up again, the scenes of eroticism (the big joke) and sexual possessiveness pile up. In the room, we're thinking about the article we're going to write and wondering what we're going to write in our notebooks. As Anna tragically tells her husband: «You denied me an orgasm!», we have time to mentally relive our day, before turning our attention back to the screen and watching, with amusement, the neighboring couples devouring their popcorn.

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Frankly, it's hard to understand how such pitiful cinema can attract the crowds. It's been a long time since we've had the good fortune and honor of witnessing so much silliness, amateurism and, above all, vacuity. We often make the distinction between auteur films and entertainment films. The problem is that Fifty Shades Lighter doesn't even fall into the second category. And that's the point: it's boring, not like a good old-fashioned action movie, no matter how clichéd!

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