Romance (1999 film)

Infobox Film
name = Romance

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caption = "Romance" DVD cover
director = Catherine Breillat
producer = Jean-François Lepetit
writer = Catherine Breillat
starring = Caroline Ducey
Rocco Siffredi
François Berléand
music = Raphaël Tidas
DJ Valentin
cinematography = Yorgos Arvanitis
editing =
distributor = Trimark Pictures Inc.
released = September 17, 1999
runtime = 99 mins. (93 mins.)(84 mins.)
country = France
awards =
language = French
budget =
amg_id = 1:175991
imdb_id = 0194314

"Romance" ("Romance X") is a 1999 French movie written and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Caroline Ducey, erotic actor Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stévenin and François Berléand. The film features explicit copulation scenes, [Anne Gillain, "Profile of a Filmmaker: Catherine Breillat" "Beyond French Feminisms: debates on women, Politics and Culture in France, 1981 - 2001", edited by Roger Célestin et al. New York: Macmillan (2003): 202. Catherine Breillat's "film "Romance" had received much praise--and criticism--the previous year for using a porn-film actor and a scene showing a nonsimulated sexual act, including a shot of an erection in the foreground."] especially one showing Caroline Ducey's coitus, from behind, with Rocco Siffredi. "Romance" inspired the trend of some artistic films featuring explicit copulation, such as: "All About Anna", "Sex and Lucia", "Shortbus", and "9 Songs".

Plot synopsis

Marie is a schoolteacher deeply in love with her boyfriend, a model, who does not have sex with her, so, she explores dangerous sexual encounters with other men — including a BDSM relationship with a man in the staff of her school. Eventually her boyfriend impregnates her; in the end, she kills him.

Controversy

In Europe, "Romance" was shown in mainstream cinemas; in the U.S., it was reduced to a mainstream-acceptable R-rating, and the European original version is un-rated. In March of 2004, the original version was broadcast, late-night on German public television. In Australia, the original version of "Romance" was broadcast uncut on the cable television network "World Movies".Fact|date=September 2008 In Canada, especially in Alberta and the Maritimes, people perceived the film's sexual content as gratuitous to the story, thus receiving an A rating and a XXX rating, respectively.Fact|date=September 2008 In June of 2008, in the Netherlands, the original version of "Romance" was broadcast on Dutch public TV, by VPRO, as one of a series of "Erotica" art house cinema.Fact|date=September 2008

References

See also

*Sadism and masochism in fiction
*List of mainstream movies with unsimulated sex

External links

*amg movie|id=1:175991|title=Romance
*mojo title|id=romance|title=Romance
*imdb title|id=0194314|title=Romance
*metacritic film|id=romance?q=Romance|title=Romance
*rotten-tomatoes|id=1092147-romance|title=Romance