You won't be disappointed!

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

There are some films you watch to get a message and this is one of the most surprising. The director sees a dichotomy in men's views of women which some women internalize. Paglia talks about the same thing, without focusing on the 'infernal' part that dominates this film. What is similar in Paglia and Breillat's views is that men admire tidiness, completeness, finality; they see the world in an almost binary way. They see women as complicated by the potential to create life and abhor the mechanisms that support that creation. Paglia calls it the Apollonian vs Dionysian. Breillat doesn't use those terms, but might think of it as Apollonian vs Cthonian. I personally don't have this view, but I've heard about it long enough to assume it's widespread among men.Breillat relieves us men of the overgeneralization by using a sexually ambiguous character to act as the "watcher of the unwatchable." Our heroine is ambiguous, too, in that she wants the opposite of what she claims and has chosen a difficult path to get it. I am conflicted in how to rate this film. It is simple on the surface, and deals with a lot of imagery that will be intolerable to some viewers (other reviews on IMDb reflect that). As the launching point of discussion between men and women, this film serves its purpose. But I do not see this as a film that a man and a woman should watch together, because their respective reactions may color and diminish the other's experience.

I was having a discussion with one my friends about movies that will shatter us like hell and he immediately started speaking about Anatomy of Hell (Anatomie de l'enfer). His statement was that he was hard enough to sit through this movie. Naturally, I was intrigued by his statement and got hands on the movie.To be frank, the movie was a disaster. It was very hard for me watch the stuff, even while forwarding. The movie is so gross that watching p0rn would be the easiest thing to do in this world..There is Amira Casar and Rocco Siffredi(Yeah..you guys are correct to read it) as the leading cast, the Lady and the Man.As far as the story goes, the man is a gay and the lady is a virgin middle aged freak. She wants to enjoy SEX and companionship. She hires the man for four days to come to her place and watch her when she is unwatchable. The visuals of the movie are so extreme in their own sense.I am actually not writing down everything here as I don't want an ADULT CONTENT filter for this page.Please don't mind watching the movie for your own mental stability.

It's going to be very hard to write a review for this film that isn't going to be pounced on by censorship, but I'll give it a try.Within the first five minutes of this film, a woman attempts suicide in the bathroom of a gay disco. It is, perhaps, the most cheerful moment in this bleak, drab film that takes a close-up and clinical look at women's genitalia and the men who don't love them. And apparently the women who aren't feeling too good about them either, since the reason that the "heroine" attempts to kill herself is, she says, because she's a woman.A gay man saves her and winds up spending four nights watching her. Of course, he winds up doing more than that. At one point, he manages to lodge the handle of a large gardening tool in a rather intimate location... without waking her up. Does _anybody_ sleep that soundly? Well, maybe the audience...In between long segments of the character "man" telling us why he's gay (although you wouldn't know it by watching this movie!) and the heroine "woman" tells us why its so hard to be her, we get some truly remarkable revelations. Ever wondered how long a woman could hold a rock inside her girlie bits or what large quantities of menstrual blood look like when smeared across the groin of a partially-aroused Frenchman? Then this is the movie for you! At one point, the heroine goes so far as to equate her reproductive opening to a vast black void, and in yet another we learn that men can give only death, and that's why gay men turn gay. Or something. You know, it's hard to follow a story when every line in the script is a veritable hyperbola of pith and the observation of humanity. Well, some seemingly quite miserable segment of humanity, anyhow.I am, admittedly, not a devotee of French cinema. I subscribe to the stereotype that most French movies are... well... like this one. There are people in the world who take their lower regions far too seriously, and one of them has made a movie.If you've ever wanted to kill yourself over the fact that you possess genitalia, be sure and check out this fine croissant stuffed with French cheese and a few things that IMDb won't let me mention using the names by which they're most commonly called. Mark my words, you'll never look at your crotch the same way again!

This is the male view of Breillat's "Romance" (1999) and has been dubbed 'unwatchable' by the critics. Breillat's sensibility is the woman I wish as life-partner for my sons (in their mid 20's) - so contemporary, as Republicanism in the US (Conservatism here in Canada) and Sharia law the Muslim conservative creed, holds woman as grossly inferior - fecund and to be controlled! Its all about 'power and fear' for these men.A woman hires a man to watch her when she is unwatchable (at night, over four nights). Goya-like the woman opens herself as to a painter - the man, unable to see art fails even his primary mission: to watch the unwatchable, consequently, his life is changed as yours will be and mine now is! 30 years ago, I went through many of the complex subtleties around menstruation as power - men are potent only through the vagina/uterus, we cannot bear life, woman's exclusive purview! The bar scene with buddy after the last night is as illuminating as it gets from a BS male macho perspective - the man ultimately reduced to tears of frustration, the woman returned to the sea.After watching be sure to view the director interview on the DVD special features - 65 minutes of background/backdrop that is intellectually of the highest order - a true high-art film maker! Shot in Portugal, on the Mediterranean, the 'twilight' over water is totally different to the 'palette' (used in a similar metaphor-movie, "The Door in the Floor") of the US East Coast beach - the Hamptons on Long Island, New York. (I lived a block from The Shore in New Jersey for a couple of years.) The Mediterranean light is more 'evocative', purple and dark blue, than the 'melancholy' sand haze and light blue of The Shore twilight.