My Man

Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but what planets do Bertrand Blier's characters come from? It may be enough to say they're from France. From the director of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and Too Beautiful For You comes another credulity-defying and anarchic upending of the battle of the sexes. Anouk Grinberg stars as Marie, a blissfully happy prostitute who goes so far as to recruit a disdainful stranger to experience the "joy, pure joy" of her work. Gerard Lanvin co-stars as a homeless man whose sexual prowess soon has her in thrall. She grooms him to be her "nice" pimp. An audacious take on sexual politics, with songs by Barry White(!) and an appearance by former Truffaut leading man Jean-Pierre Leaud (the iconic alienated youth in The 400 Blows) as one of Marie's clients. Released theatrically as Mon Homme. Optional. (K. Lee Benson)