The Sentiment of the Flesh

Be prepared to open your mind!  In this French film, an anatomical/medical illustrator Helena (Annabelle Hettmann) meets an internist Benoit (Thibault Vinçon) when she goes for x-rays for back pain. He claims the spine x-rays are inconclusive so uses a more advanced machine, which she comes to realize is his way of seeing her, much as a painter will see his subject in his own particular way.

They start an affair where the physical knowing of each other becomes, literally, more than skin deep--he does an MRI to view her internally--and then she convinces him to "know" her in an extreme and dangerous way.


This was an entirely new fetish that I've never seen depicted before--very kinky but treated in a real way. A different way of treating the subject although will be too taboo and graphic for most tastes.  It's hard to describe yet compelling.

I don't think the ending lives up to this very original premise, but admittedly the concept is hard to live up to.  However this hits you, it will certainly intrigue you, good or bad.