Movie #1227 "Arctic Heart" was another Chicago film festival offering that we saw the other night, and it started out pretty good ---- very fast dialogue taking part in a lab that is doing experiments on mice and penguins. A young woman is obviously in love with her boss, and when she sees that he needs a human to experiment on to get results in a quicker way for an award he is after, she decides to step in and be that guinea pig. The story then got even funnier when her boss and she discover that the act of sex prompts the drug she has been given to finally do its job. The story gets stickier and stickier, and then it takes a wild turn. Some people will follow the love story to the end; I'm afraid others may not and might find the end, and therefore the film, a little too silly. I was in the first batch, but Dave was in the second. I am a watcher of tons of romantic comedies, and I found this french film a very entertaining film, and I would recommend it, with some reservations which I've stated above. Also, this is a very adult film and should not be watched by kids at all. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the young woman in the film who did an extra great job in acting in a quiet manner and getting the comedy across, and she is Charlotte Le Bon (from "The hundred ft. journey" and " The Walk"). What a wonderful face that she uses ---- she's so natural, and I hope to see her in more films in the future.
ARCTIC HEART 2016 1 hr and 21 minutes 4 stars out of 5 French with subtitles
Silently and hopelessly in love with brilliant and egotistical Professor Quignard, the shy Christophine has been pursuing her PhD at his research lab for eight years. Now, the professor and his team are on the verge of making a discovery that will rock the world of science and medicine: the key to universal immunity through 'ppm', a miracle penguin protein. All they are missing is approval from the funding board to begin human testing. In a crazy gesture to finally get her beloved's attention, Christophine injects herself with the compound, thereby, becoming the first ever human test subject. Instantly, Christophine, whose name he didn't even know, becomes the center of Quignard's focus, as he and his ever-devoted lab rat secretly embark on one far-fetched experiment protocol after another. until it becomes clear that immunity could be triggered by... lovemaking!.
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