Romance

Marie loves her boyfriend but gets frustrated by his unwillingness to make love to her. To satisfy her sexual hunger she finds lovers, first an unknown man that she meets in a bar and then the headmaster of the school where she works as a teacher.Romance was recently released in America and was introduced as: ”The European sensation that sent audiences into a tizzy”, ”An eyeful - the most sexually audacious movie since Last Tango in Paris” and even as ”the most sexually explicit mainstream movie ever made”.Certainly it’s bold, it’s near porn, but a simple showing of naked bodies. Breillat, inspired by Bataille, de Sade, Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses and Bunuels Belle de Jour, has created a film about female desire, not male fantasy. Romance is a drama with psychological reflections of corporal behaviour - the camera captures the physical, the voice-over the sensual. Marie wants to avoid kisses, she wants to be a hole, and she wants to get tied and shackled. At the same time she wants nearness, tenderness and feelings. As a disoriented and frustrated nymphomaniac she recites the catch-22 of love and power, when she is faithful to her boyfriend he is uninterested but when she is unfaithful then she desires her.The film is bold and the parts demands a lot - it’s selfleaving and nude. The intercourse scenes are nearly pornographic and when Marie caresses her man it almost takes your breath away. We are accustomed to see naked women, but...erect penises?A man who is used to showing that is real-life porn star Rocco Siffredi, who makes his feature film debut outside the porn scene. He says that he took part in the most demanding bed scene in all his career and admits reluctlantly that his manhood took a thorn.

Medverkande
Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stevenin, Francois Berleand, Rocco Siffredi: Producent
Jean-Francois Lepetit: Manus
Catherine Breillat: Foto
Yorgos Arvantis: Musik
DJ Valentin, Raphael Tidas: Talat språk
French