ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Smoreni Zmaj I have nothing against explicit sex in movies when it has function to make story stronger and leave deeper impression. Of course, I like good porn too. But when movie that is not porn is based on two hours of sex and nudity while there's no relevant story, that is simply crappy movie. Neither it tells good story, nor shows good sex. I want my two hours back.....................................................

lazarillo With even theatrical French films being largely financed by television these days, it's perhaps not surprising so much modern French cinema is devoted to "social problem" films like this. Although this is allegedly based on a true story, I don't know that middle-class teenagers engaging in wild sex orgies is really all that widespread of social problem even in France (although I'm sure a lot of horny male teenagers probably WISH it was a widespread social problem). More likely this was a "man-bites-dog" story that got attention from the French media because it was UNUSUAL, not because it was necessarily typical of what a lot of French teens are up to these days.Still, if this were an American film, it would undoubtedly be either much more alarmist or much more exploitative (or perhaps both in the case of something like Larry Clark's "Kids"). This film, however, remains fairly non-judgmental and realistic. Its three protagonists--a shy male musician and two girls who get played by the same smooth-talking "player"--are realistic and sympathetic, even if the background given of their problems and their home-life doesn't really account for why they would become juvenile swingers. But I suppose teenagers don't necessarily need any more excuses to be sexually promiscuous than adults do.It's probably not a coincidence that there are a lot more French films about middle-class teenage or college students who become prostitutes ("Student Services", "Young and Beautiful") or all decide to get pregnant ("17 Filles") or engage in sex orgies like this then there are about teenagers who do their homework, generally listen to their parents, and are focused on getting into a good university. Still, this film is not nearly as exploitative as it COULD be. There is a fair amount of nudity (actually more male than female), but it's not all that shocking since all the actors look at least five years too old to actually BE teenagers. (They're all pretty attractive too in the naturalistic French way). Still, I miss the more old-style French films that are more arty and/or literary and personal and are focused on singular characters as opposed to "real", but frankly also quite boring, people.

subxerogravity A group of kids in France start an orgy party. It sounds like a great idea, so I went to go see it.The story was there but was not that much of a focus to drive the movie. More so the characters in the movie were more interesting as well as their personal sub plots: Alex, a 17 year old boy who seems lost being all by himself with no adult supervision. Gabriel, who's having some real issues at home with his father's accident and tries to escape in his music. George, the most stereotypical story of a hot girl who got the attention of a hot guy than lost that guy's attention after having sex with him and tries to cope and Laetitia who's not getting any attention and is looking for excitement. Some decent acting is going on, good enough to make me want to watch. I feel like the movie is trying to teach some young kids a lesson about the cautions of group sex, but I guess because it's based on a true story is the reason why the lesson was so weak. It's cool that they are keeping true to the story and the focus on some of the characters was enjoyable, but I must warn you, it does go on and on without nothing really happening, and it's more about relating to what is going on. I did like it, I can't help it because nudity and sex is involved, but I took nothing from it.

euroGary 'Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)' is based on true events, but it's hard to imagine even a French father, upon discovering his sixteen year-old son has been attending orgies, being laid-back enough to describe it as "profoundly mediocre", as happens here! When a game of Spin the Bottle gets a more adult twist, a group of teenagers from a nice middle-class area of town fall into having impromptu orgies. Against this background various other stories play out: the Lothario (Finnegan Oldfield - if he's as Irish as his name suggests he's got a superb French accent - to my English ears, anyway!) who uses the opportunity to toy with the affections of two girls; and the musician, carer for his disabled father, who stands apart from the crowd while lusting after one of the girls. But the film seems to have no focus until near its end when, faced with the consequences of their actions, the teenagers are revealed as just that - irresponsible teenagers, and not as sophisticated as they'd imagined themselves to be.Even though there is a deal of nudity in the film, there's little eroticism: the rock-video editing means the viewer is rarely sure exactly who's bits he's looking at! The film made little impression on me; in fact, I spent most of it thinking what horrendous underwear everyone was wearing, and worrying about the fate of the hamster.