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"Secret Things" Leaves Nothing to the Imagination

By Nicholas Collias

Boise Weekly | August 7, 2004

For "Shrek 2" and French director Jean-Claude Brisseau’s "Secret Things" to simultaneously show in the same theater complex feels appropriate—albeit only in a highly perverse way.

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Tags: French, Jean-Claude Brisseau, erotic, Secret Things

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