New Release: The Sentiment of the Flesh DVD

The Sentiment of the Flesh movie scene

Annabelle Hettmann and Thibault Vincon get to know each other's bodies in The Sentiment of the Flesh.

On July 26, 2011, Strand Releasing issued the French psycho-sexual thriller The Sentiment of the Flesh on DVD for the list price of $24.99.

The film revolves around Helena (Annabelle Hettmann), an anatomical drawing student whose talent for sketching the human body is matched only by her growing sexual adventurousness, and Benoit (Thibault Vincon), a young radiologist who takes an X-ray of Helena and really likes what he sees. It doesn’t take too long before Helena and Benoit’s mutual attraction leads to a dark obsession with their all-too-mortal bodies.

Another film to explore the unsettling relationship between people and their flesh — check out Videodrome, Crash, Dead Ringers and other movies by David Cronenberg to see the obvious inspirations for this film — The Sentiment of the Flesh was written and directed by Roberto Garzelli, his first theatrical feature.

Presented in French with English subtitles, the unrated, for-mature-audiences-only 2010 movie made its premiere in the U.S. on DVD.

Check out the trailer with English subtitles:

 

Buy or Rent The Sentiment of the Flesh
Amazon graphic
DVD
DVD Empire graphicDVD Movies Unlimited graphicDVD Netflix graphic

About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.