Product Details

• Actors: Vincent Perez, Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko, Michel Serrault
• Directors: Gabriel Aghion
• Format: Color, Full Screen, Import
• Language: French
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002M9IF4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,279 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

La folle journée d'un libertin appelé par mille plaisirs, attiré par plusieurs femmes... Diderot, aux prises avec une aventurière, subit les délires gastronomiques d'une baronne trop gourmande. Lutte contre la censure d'un cardinal rouge et exécrable et tente de contrôler les assauts de son épouse, de sa fille, d'une chevalière nymphomane et d'une jeune fille qui veut se débarrasser de son pucelage avant le soir. Une journée torride et exentrique, un moment de chair, de soie et d'esprit, où la philosophie lutine avec l'érotisme.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome, December 27, 2005

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Damico Guillaume - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Le Libertin (Original French Version)(No Eng Subs) (DVD)

this movie is an open minded movie during the 17th century in France. Costumes, contry sides, french slang and vincent perez nude frontal....
very funny if you understand french and if you're liberal...
two thumbs up

14 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Attempted translation of description, January 1, 2005

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David E. Miller "LividEmerald" (Las Vegas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Le Libertin (Original French Version)(No Eng Subs) (DVD)

I cannot rate this film because I haven't seen it. I wish to neither recommend nor condemn it. So I give it 3 stars as a means of remaining neutral.

The purpose here is to offer a possible translation of the French description of the film. Since I have not seen it, I must interpret here and there, fill in a blank or two (some things are grammatically or contextually inferred) and offer alternative meanings. Hopefully, this will give you a general idea of what this film contains.

"A crazy day [in the life] of a (male) libertine summoned by a
thousand pleasures, attracted [lured?] by several women... Diderot, in the hands of an adventuress, is subjected to the excessive gastronomic desires of a baroness. (He) struggles against the censure of an execrable red cardinal and attempts to control the (sexual) assaults of his wife, his daughter, a nymphomaniac lady knight, and a young girl who wants to lose her virginity before evening. A torrid and excentric day, a moment of flesh, silk and wit, where philosophy plays teasingly with eroticism."

Perhaps a professional translator can do better. But that's basically it.