La Chatte à deux têtes (2002)
Directed by Jacques Nolot

Film Review

Jacques Nolot's second film as a director is in marked contrast to his first film, the thoughtful and rather moving drama L'Arrière-pays (1998).   With its narrow scope, confined setting and ugly cinematography, La Chatte à deux têtes feels like an exercise in pointless artistic self-indulgence, tedious to watch and frustratingly self-conscious.  The main difficulty with the film is that it's not at all clear what statement Nolot is trying to make, and it just feels like an inexperienced and unimaginative filmmaker having a go at playing the auteur just for the sake of it.

Film Synopsis

In a sleazy pornographic cinema on the Place Clichy in Paris, the bored Spanish ticket seller recounts her entire life story to her attentive admirer, a young and somewhat naive projectionist.  The amiable exchange is interrupted by the sudden appearance of a charismatic man in his fifties for whom the ticket seller has a particular fondness.  The older man uses his influence over the eager-to-please Spanish woman to get her to procure attractive young men for him, as it turns out he has very specific sexual requirements.  The good-looking projectionist would suit him nicely...