Nobody's Hero
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Year Released: 2022
Rating: 2.5
Avid jogger Médéric (Jean-Charles Clichet) aggressively pursues frumpy prostitute Isadora (Noémie Lvovsky), their tryst in a hotel is interrupted by a bombing, then he has an encounter with homeless Selim (Ilies Kadri), who he believes is a terrorist (he even turns him into the police) ... and then, when he tries to meet up with Isadora, her possessive husband Gérard (Renaud Rutten) suddenly appears. While I don't think Guiraudie's attempt to meld his fascination with sexual fluidity and concerns with terrorism in his native country comes together in a satisfactory way - he's a little too rigid to allow the movie to truly "break loose" - I can't help but admit that I appreciate the effort to provide timely social commentary without worrying about political correctness. It's strange that the spouse of a sex worker would get so upset over his wife's (constant) indiscretions (I'm guessing he secretly "enjoys" being cuckolded) or that homosexual Selim would be willing to perform cunnilingus on a woman twice his age or that someone as cute as Médéric's boss Florence (Doria Tillier) and her advances could be so easily rejected ... but it is the 21st century, and anything is possible at any given second.