Some people fall in love. Some people fall all over it. <BR>&nbsp;

Some people fall in love. Some people fall all over it.

This seems to have been the year in which brave women directors in their 40s have starred in their own films about passionate love affairs with younger men - remember Sally Potter and her magnificent The Tango Lesson. In Post Coitum, Animal Triste, director Brigitte Rouan plays Diane Clovier, who seems to have it all; she loves her husband, Philippe, Patrick Chesnais, and her two sons, and enjoys her work for a publishing house. But she risks everything when she falls passionately in love with Emilio, Boris Terral, a man half her age. Almost deranged with love and desire, she takes crazy risks to meet her lover, jeopardising in the process the stablity of her life and the lives of those around her... Rarely has amour fou been as graphically and deliriously portrayed onscreen as it is here, but this is far from being an exploitation film, despite the steamy sex scenes. It`s a candid analysis of the long-repressed yearnings of an `average` woman, and Rouan`s understanding and sympathy for her central character come across strongly - though the pain she brings to her family is never avoided. The director`s bold performance is as impressive as her work behind the camera. The title comes from the Roman poet, Ovid, and refers to post-coital depression.