Product Review

Baya Benmahmoud; a young; extroverted liberal; lives by the old hippie slogan: Make love; not war to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results until she meets Arthur Martin; a Jewish middle aged; middle-of-the road scientist. Bound by common tragic family histories (the Algerian War and Holocaust under Vichy); the duo improbably fall in love. Amid the bubbly amour; humorous lasciviousness and moments of sheer madness; filmmaker Michel Leclerc injects satirical riffs on such hot-button sociopolitical issues as Arab-Jewish relations; anti-Semitism; immigration; and racial and cultural identity.