In earlier times (when everything was better, or simply everything was possible) artistic films about mythology were a common thing. Passolini did it, or Jean Cocteau, and decades later French filmmaker Christophe Honoré has picked up that tradition. Honoré is known for his controversy (one of the best known examples is the masterpiece Ma Mère with Isabelle Huppert). After Les Bien-Aimes Honoré comes up with a contemporary adaptation of collected poems by the Roman poet Ovid. Not easy cinema, but impressive nonetheless.