
A New Life(2002)
A young American falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape.


Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.

Coralie Revel
Nathalie

Sabrina Seyvecou
Sandrine

Roger Miremont
Delacroix

Fabrice Deville
Christophe

Blandine Bury
Charlotte

Olivier Soler
Cadene
Viviane Théophildès
Mrs. Mercier

Dorothée Picard
Delacroix's Mother
Pierre Gabaston
Bar Boss

María Luisa García
Sandrine's Mother
Secret Things is a drama film released in 2002 exploring themes of key, office, eroticism, orgy, seduction, new french extremism. Directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, it stars Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Roger Miremont. Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.
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