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 enlarge | Director: Catherine Breillat
Actors: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand, Rocco Siffredi, Reza Habouhossein
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  104 reviews
Sales Rank: 3790
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 84 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D7249D
ISBN: 1573627771
UPC: 031398724933
EAN: 9781573627771
ASIN: B00003JRAV
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: February 5, 2002
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 Romance January 5, 2008
Calvin Peake (MD USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent video for an adult audience. It gives an insight of what one woman feels as she engages in an sexual act. Done very well.
 Breillat is Brilliant. September 8, 2007
G. Merritt (Boulder, CO)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
"All true artists are hated. Only conformists are ever adored."--Catherine Breillat.
Catherine Breillat (1948) is a brilliant French filmmaker, director and novelist. Her films take us (particularly us uptight Americans) places we've never been before, and usually outside our comfort zones with their hard truths. As a result, Breillat is often the subject of controversy for her explicit depictions of sexuality and violence. Romance (Romance X) (1999) stars Caroline Ducey, French pornstar Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stévenin and François Berléand. Romance is as austere as an Eric Rohmer film. It tells the story of Marie (Ducey), a schoolteacher who is in love with her live-in boyfriend Paul (Stevenin) who, because of his own intimacy issues (no, he's not gay), withholds sex from her. (In a stroke of pure genius, Breillat depicts Paul reading a copy of Bukowski's "Love Is a Dog From Hell" over dinner.) As a result, sexually-frustrated Marie pursues increasingly risky, anonymous sexual encounters with other men, including a bondage relationship with the much older headmaster at her school. From an Italian stud (Siffredi) to her Monsieur Marquis de Sade headmaster (Berleand), suffice it to say, Marie does it all. Throughout the film, as Marie explores her sexual desires, one wonders: what is Breillat up to here? Ultimately, this is not so much a film about casual sex as a film (from a woman's point-of-view) about sexual intellectualism, and finding empowerment through the vagina and motherhood. Breillat's interest in confronting hard truths about human sexuality is something I admire about French cinema and her films in particular. This is a film people should be debating afterwards in cafes, bars, and their bedrooms.
Before dismissing Romance as porn, viewers should consider that although the original version was released as a "porn" film in the US (with an edited mainstream version also released with an R rating), it was first shown in mainstream cinemas throughout Europe. In March 2004, the unedited film was broadcast on late-night German public TV, resulting in a few protests. The film was also broadcast on the Australian cable TV network "World Movies" in its uncut form.
G. Merritt
 Disfunctional Gobblygook July 27, 2007
Cheryl A. Kitchen (Virginia)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
One of the worse films I have ever viewed. The husband's character is unbelievable. The female lead is somewhat believable, but tedious and boring. There are lots of beautiful scenes and beautiful bodies, so visually it is extremely well done. There are not many films I can say that I hate, but this one is very close. I love foreign films, films with an edge but this was not interesting to me in any way. I feel robbed of my time and my money.
NOT AN EROTIC MOVIE July 19, 2007
Thang Truong (Kansas City MO)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are looking for a hot and erotic movie, this is not the one. It is about the girl got did not act proactively. Basically, she got stuck in a relationship but is too lazy to move on.
Simple Review May 26, 2007
Thumper (San Diego, CA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Outstanding Movie. The movie takes an inside look of how a woman can view herself through stages in a loveless relationship. The sex scenes gives the movie meaning to what some women call love. In the end, her true love she finds.
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