Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Yulia Pomarina I saw "Le Libertin" 3 times. Or even 4. It is very good. It is much better on French with subtitles It is one of those 2 or 3 movies which I wanted to re-watch immediately after final titles. How to explain? If you see only nudity and scabrous jokes here I am afraid that this film is not about it at all. You may try but you can not persuade me. What I see here - is a great philosopher and great struggle for enlightenment. And what I admire in French style is to do serious things with easy smile and turning all into a fest. And they do it very powerful and in very fascinating manner. Vincent Perez and Fanny Ardant are splendid and subtle. They show a relation between two adult persons. Look how really adult people do it (not kidult). Great part of the movie is devoted to question of religion. Soundtrack to the movie is worthy of listening. Main song performed by Boy George adds richness to atmosphere.You feel courage behind the fest - you can see behind the form its content. You see a great self-control behind this smile. They do not try to make a good face playing bad, they do not play fool, no. On the contrary they make their fest so courageously, they are able to play games when the matter is quite serious, so you see Frenchmen are great nation. As if they know a great secret of life... To smile like in an old song...Smile Smile, though your heart is aching Smile, even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky you'll get by If you smile through your fear and sorrow Smile and maybe tomorrow You'll see the sun come shining through for youLight up your face with gladness Hide every trace of sadness Although a tear may be ever so near That's the time you must keep on trying Smile what's the use of crying You'll find that life is still worthwhile If you'll just SmileThis is a film which Fenchmen made after all what happened with them after the Age of Enlightenment, having in mind all what they did not find necessarily to say straightly. I see that this film has a strongest content covered with jokes. Only Frenchmen are able to say something complex using such easy manner without harm to the content.I love this movie from the very beginning to the very end.

Shaolin_Apu This movie does not really tell what Diderot was for. Everything what it contains is about the primal reactions what his ideas engineered for and how the current morals, which were supervised by the Church, did not fit into them. The real Diderot was a part of some much larger picture than just sexual morals of the French upper class. The knowledge what the 18th century philosophers wanted to represent was equally against the Upper Class as it was against over-dominant Church.'Le Libertin' has a good pick of French top actors, but those who want to see this only for Audrey Tautou's famous part may find that thing indifferent. The movie is full of various sexual matters but anyway it is all how it was back in the 18th century, and so every idea that is about sex in the film is also historically very accurate and well crafted indeed.

puskababy What a great film. Vincent Perez was fabulous as Diderot. I really liked this movie and would recommend it to anyone that is a fan of Vincent Perez and who also likes good French films. I have watched Perez's performance in other films and find he is such a great actor. This film had great acting, great photography, witty dialogue and good casting. The costuming was also really good, with an accurate portrayal of what society would wear in that time period. I really don't want to give away any of the story line so I will stop now, but to all fans of Vincent Perez. Go and see this film. Another note, I also really liked the music used in the film, it portrayed the wittiness of the dialogue.

apiltd A must for those who are not fully foolish to be Hollywoodish!The reason to pass my comments on this nice French movie was the vote on 05/18/00 equal to 4,7... Really, some IMDb customers miss great atmosphere of the comedy and superb play of the cast.I definitely want everybody, who never saw charming Vincent Perez, to catch him and the rest in this artificial picture from the life of 18th century philosopher Denis Diderot. Never heard that he was so romantic to walk nude during the creation of his encyclopaedia, never imagined that this didactic tutor (Diderot at the age of 60s was a pen friend of Russian tzarina Ekaterina the Great, when she was 30) was so light. Seems that duet of Perez and Fanny Ardant has a personal sound (just to recall that Vincent dated Jacqueline Bisset).Movie was shown at Russian satellite channel (NTV+) before it obtained great success in cinemas. Really Russians have better taste than 24 voters rated it from 1 to 6. Please, wipe such bad results and watch Le Libertin again!