French Twist (1995)
4/10
Very French, with a Twist
21 January 2012
Mainstream comedies that deal with Homosexuality and bisexuality normally do so in one or two ways; they make fun of the alternate lifestyles or they use two women who are both very beautiful and seemingly straight and merely have them make out to excite the male portion of the audience that the movie is generally geared towards. (I.e.: the kiss in Cruel Intentions that got enormous publicity for the movie). Basically it is used as a way for a B-movie to get some extra attention from the news media and therefore get more film goers. This French film, however has a different approach, it treats the kissing scenes as just some normal scene. There are two people kissing, not two women kissing. It also has the ability to draw you in with more of a story than a Hollywood movie of the same fashion would. This is primarily because the Hollywood movie would be shot in a more exploitive way than this film.

The plot is fairly predictable, however there are several twists that make this movie much more interesting then I would have originally thought. The idea behind this story is not very original, and neither are the characters portrayed, however the story and the few plot twists that occur make it intriguing enough to keep you in your seat. The aesthetic quality of the film is about average for a film of this age (it was made in the mid 1990's), and budget.

Although this is not a film that I would readily watch again, and wouldn't have normally picked up in the first place it may be worth a look if it is in the normal genre of films that you like.
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