Nature of Love

'A sexy, funny treat, Chokri's third feature communicates some home truths about desire and familiarity, but not at the expense of comedy. 'The Nature of Love' refreshingly centers the female adulterer’s experience, in a richly comic mode. Monia Chokri´s delightful new film is impeccably cast. Magalie Lépine Blondeau is wonderful, gifted with great comic timing. But it’s hard to imagine Blondeau’s role working as well as it does without the right actor as Sylvain, the kind of guy whose compulsive sexual charm is enough, by itself, to swamp every other more cautious instinct. Call it screen presence, magnetism, charisma — Cardinal has it. Cinematographer André Turpin camera is an active, antic presence, fond of darting zooms that lend proceedings an ironic gloss of 1980s beer commercials, to entirely deliberate-feeling effect.' Variety