Romance (1999)
Country: FR
Technical: col 99m
Director: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand
Synopsis:
The husband of a primary school teacher does not make love to her any more and she seeks solace at the hands of a bereaved stranger, her headteacher and a would-be 'client' who rapes her. Ultimately she gets pregnant by her husband and disposes of him in a gas explosion.
Review:
Less conventional than it sounds, this is in fact an examination from a female perspective of what drives sex between men and women, including some rather corny observations on the self-destructiveness of women which only a French film would permit itself. Most of it, delivered in desultory monologue by the leading character, is well aimed, and the representation of sex, groundbreakingly frank at the time, is prosaic in the extreme.
Country: FR
Technical: col 99m
Director: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand
Synopsis:
The husband of a primary school teacher does not make love to her any more and she seeks solace at the hands of a bereaved stranger, her headteacher and a would-be 'client' who rapes her. Ultimately she gets pregnant by her husband and disposes of him in a gas explosion.
Review:
Less conventional than it sounds, this is in fact an examination from a female perspective of what drives sex between men and women, including some rather corny observations on the self-destructiveness of women which only a French film would permit itself. Most of it, delivered in desultory monologue by the leading character, is well aimed, and the representation of sex, groundbreakingly frank at the time, is prosaic in the extreme.
Country: FR
Technical: col 99m
Director: Catherine Breillat
Cast: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand
Synopsis:
The husband of a primary school teacher does not make love to her any more and she seeks solace at the hands of a bereaved stranger, her headteacher and a would-be 'client' who rapes her. Ultimately she gets pregnant by her husband and disposes of him in a gas explosion.
Review:
Less conventional than it sounds, this is in fact an examination from a female perspective of what drives sex between men and women, including some rather corny observations on the self-destructiveness of women which only a French film would permit itself. Most of it, delivered in desultory monologue by the leading character, is well aimed, and the representation of sex, groundbreakingly frank at the time, is prosaic in the extreme.