A powerful French businessman maintains an empire that influences the fate of nations, while concealing dangerous sexual appetites. During a business trip to New York, he spends the evening with a number of prostitutes, but finds his seemingly invincible status falling apart when he is accused of assault. Drama, starring Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset
Gérard Depardieu is simultaneously compelling and repulsive in this slow-burning orgy of sex, money and power from veteran American film-maker Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant). Depardieu plays Devereaux, a thinly fictionalised version of disgraced finance mogul Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Devereaux lives a life of hedonistic excess and considers himself to be untouchable, but his world is turned upside down when he is arrested for sexual assault on a business trip to New York. For the first half an hour or so, the film offers little more than a series of extended sex scenes, as the economic titan grunts his way from one graphic, booze-soaked encounter to the next. But Ferrara's unflinching direction results in several absorbing sequences, including a barnstorming argument between Devereaux and his ambitious wife (Jacqueline Bisset), while Depardieu offers a brave performance as the self-confessed sex addict.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Devereaux | Gérard Depardieu |
| Simone | Jacqueline Bisset |
| Sophie Devereaux | Marie Mouté |
| Chambermaid | Pamela Afesi |
| Judge | Nikki James |
| Pierre | Paul Calderon |
| Guy | Paul Hipp |
| French journalist | Shanyn Leigh |
| Renée | Amy Ferguson |
| Executive assistant | Drena De Niro |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Abel Ferrara |
