Picking up from the first outing for our sex-addict "Joe" (Charlotte Gainsbourg) we continue with her recounting of her life to Stellan Skarsgård as her life becomes slightly more settled; she lives with "Jerome" (Shia LeBeouf) and has a child. That, however, serves as a temporary, slight, distraction from her insatiable desire to push her body to the limits of sexual, and now physical endurance. Finding that she no longer feels satisfied by any form of sexual encounter, she turns to more masochistic endeavours and this, to be fair - especially the scenes with Jamie Bell - are tough to watch. Indeed, this film shows us more of the controlling aspects of "Joe" as she no longer reacts to her nature, but now appears to be capable more of nurturing her desires. That robs this sequel of the honesty and integrity of the first film; she is now much more in control of her choices and therefore susceptible to criticism - and her choices are reactionary, short sighted and just plain stupid. By the last half hour she has lost any interest and/or sympathy I ever had and what started out as quite a fascinating look at female sexuality desire and obsession at it's most raw becomes a sort of poor pseudo-psychology exercise.

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