After the cynicism-free joys and romantic thrills of The Artist, Jean Dujardin plunges into the tawdry sexual maelstrom of French infidelity in a series of sketches featuring serial adulterers.

After sitting through this, you rather fancy he should also plunge into a cold bath.

Nine shorts - lasting from a sexually frustrating two minutes to a carnally impressive twenty - explore the lack of restraint of the Gallic libido and couldn't be more, well, French.

On the raunchy side, Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche head for the bright lights and fleshy temptations of Nevada's Sin City in the segment Las Vegas and play a couple of boorish swordsmen in the opening scene - The Prologue.

More interestingly, Dujardin and his real-life wife Alexandra Lamy each confess to affairs in the morally intriguing The Question while Sandrine Kiberlain amusingly plays a sex addiction counsellor in the genuinely drole The Anonymous Players.

Inevitably, these portmanteau-style affairs prove to be hit and miss and - taken as a whole - these racy glimpses into the duplicitous inclinations of serial adulterers offers all the insight of The Benny Hill Show on permanent loop.

At the end of a tiring day, it's pertinent to note that Dujardin and Lellouche chauvinistically employ the services of a genuine porn star in one scene and that posters for the film were removed from the Paris Metro because it was felt their sexist content might affect Dujardin's Oscar chances for The Artist.

Zut alors!

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