It has an English title on IMDB--Heat Wave (Les Grandes chaleurs)--so I think a subtitled version must exist.
It's about a 52 year old social worker who's husband has just died. He was sick for awhile and she nursed him herself, but at the very end he admitted he'd been having a long affair. After he dies a 20 year old man shows up who--unbeknownst to her--has been in love with her since she was his case worker years ago, when he tried to commit suicide.
She tries dating some tepid and rather selfish men her age, and you know that for years she's been taking care of everyone else, and hasn't had any sex, so when she finally succumbs to this man for whom she's the center of the universe... she falls hard. Which is why the fall--The Shower Scene--is woah. Like ... woah. And that's without anymore nudity than showing you his bum.
Then you add in his hilarious buddies, and her funny (adult) kids, the charming script, the mean coworker, and the family secret, and I was LOL-ing all over my sofa.
Directed by the great actress Sophie Lorain, from Fortier.
I hope you guys get the chance to catch it one day. It's a nice bit of fantasy. Perfect for a heat wave. Um dome.
If you think you'll never catch it and you really just wanna see Le Hot Sex Scene... in this video you can see it, and the important scene before. In the scene before he gets dressed in a suit at the place where he volunteers--where they take in donated clothes. He brings her this bouquet of flowers (totally stolen of course), and she's coming back from a very stupid date, so she's intrigued/unsure/flattered, but she asked him: Why are you in my husband's suit? And then they realize... it's because her dead husband's clothes were brought to the center where he volunteers. She can't help laughing her ass off, and he's humiliated and rides off. (And he has her watch. Cause he's always stealing shit.)
She goes by the center to see him, but he's not there. She almost waits around for him, but she still feels stupid chasing after a guy 30 years younger, so she just leaves a message with someone and goes.
The next scene is the scene where she's watering her lawn. So it's a great contrast from the last one where he's the supplicant, the suitor, fully dressed, in her dead husband's suit, trying to seem older, proper, and becomes she unmans him, strips him of what little power he holds --> to this, the shower scene. Where he's literally stripped, but completely powerful. Shiver me timbers! That's good writing my friends.
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