(aka "Romance" )
directed
by Catherine Breillat
France 1999
On
her continuous journey to explore human sexuality, Breillat in "Romance
X" (Romance, 1999), explores the relationship of love and sex with an
almost clinical distance: Sterile in her mise-en-scene of, yet always natural
and uninhibited, sexuality. Thus, while openly pornographic, it never becomes
vulgar or offensive.
Unable to have sex with her fiancée, a woman seeks out lovers: "How can
you love a man who doesn’t fuck you?", one of her lovers ask, "I
don’t like men who fuck me", she replies. So begins her voyage into her
own sexuality, that takes her from ordinary sex to rape by random stranger, and
thru which she discovers her sexual and emotional limits.
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Theatrical Release: 14 April 1999
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DVD Review: Trimark - Region 1 - NTSC
Big thanks to Henrik Sylow for the Review!
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| Runtime | 1:38:28 | |
| Video |
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| Subtitles | English, French, Spanish, None | |
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The image is 1.60:1,
which differs from the films Original Aspect Ration of 1.66:1. However
in what way the film is cropped, I can't say. The picture is also very
dark and somewhat grainy. |
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