After her intense adventure with Christian Gray, Anastacia Steele breaks off their arrangement to start a new life in Seattle. But desire consumes her, and when Gray returns to her with a new proposition, she accepts. Passion takes over, until Anastacia is confronted by her lover’s past, which gradually begins to transform her life into a nightmare...

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The books were bad enough, but the adaptations of the pseudo-steamy novels of E. L. James are certainly one of the biggest jokes of recent years. Starring Dakota Johnson (who at least is a good element of the franchise) and Jamie Dornan, the first movie by Sam Taylor-Johnson was funny because it was ridiculous. It’s hard to say the same about the sequel, this time directed by James Foley. No longer a curiosity, the second installment induces pure boredom. Despite the arrival of new characters and even Kim Basinger, all Fifty Shades Darker does is recycle the same old scenes, with superficial dialogue, a kitschy plot and sex that is much ado about nothing. Reserved for purists and hard-core fans of the books.