Please don't spend money on this.

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

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

A heartfelt lesbian romance at the heart of an experimental film. Camille is a professor who is in the beginnings of rebellion against her repressed lifestyle at an extremely conservative school finds she is being pursued,by her opposite, a free spirited circus performer. Petra's attentions slowly frees her of her inhibitions and allows the teacher to blossom into who she really was meant to be. This of course brings confusion and heartache for Camille and those in her life including her straitlaced fiancé. To me this character study may not be a film you enjoy, but appreciate the journey of self discovery. Also, don't miss the very subtle suggestion of a hopeful end for Camille's broken hearted boyfriend Martin.

Camille Baker (Pascale Bussières) and boyfriend Martin (Henry Czerny) are fellow professors at a Christian university. Martin could get a coveted promotion but they can't continue to live in sin. She's devastated by her dog's death. Circus acrobat Petra (Rachael Crawford) sees her breakdown at the laundromat and comforts her. They become friends and eventually even more.Camille is probably not conservative enough at the start. She's ill-fitting at the university. By starting her off as a liberated woman, her journey isn't as far or as dramatic as it needs to be. The style is rather bland. The idea of a circus in an industrial space could have been amazing. Overall, the movie is too slow and there isn't enough drama. It tries to be artistic which only drains the movie of any inherent tension.

So much of the film bears little or no relevance to the plot which is poorly strung together. I suspect the scenes of the circus performers were added to give the film an 'artzy' bohemian flavor, but it failed miserably. I believe many of the scenes were added as padding to stretch it out to 90 minutes, 80 of which were thoroughly boring. The script coupled with the acting acting of the two leading ladies barely aroused any emotions. However, the sex scenes where done tastefully but let down by the appalling script. There were too many awkward pauses which lead me to believe even the actors themselves didn't understand what message or emotions they were intending to convey. By far the best part of the movie was the musical score.

This film is so beautiful it could be enjoyed without sound. But what a shame it would be to miss the brilliant, sensitive dialog.Communication of confusion and insecurity is frightening in its accuracy. The only reason it's not a 10 is the obvious use of symbolism to compensate for a suitable ending. The connection with the lead character builds to an intense level and is suddenly abandoned when the story turns a corner.Camille fillets her life in front of us through one engaging scene after another and we deserve to see her in the resultant passion or pain (or likely both) that results.