Romance

Pros: Breillat's Script/Direction, Look, Tone, & Cast.
Cons: Explicit Sex, Subject Matter, & Scenes Aren't For Everyone.

Part of Chris Jarmick's Erotic Film W/O. Info on the W/O is here: h ttp://www.epinions.com/content _234288680580 One of France's most revered and controversial directors, Catherine Breillat has been ...

Pros: the shocking scenes actually work in the context of the film.
Cons: the lead character, sexual politics, frequent tedium

Leave it to the French to make a movie like this! The French seem to have a knack for making movies about sex that are far more than mere soft-core parades, and now here’s a movie about sex that is far more than a mere hard-core parade. I’m...

Pros: A film of plastic elegance
Cons: Boring, forced, & lacking any moral or emotional value.

An ample volume of bared breasts and buttocks would indicate the Director intended this to be an erotic film. It's not.

The not-so-"romantic" leads are irritating both as melodramatic, self-involved individuals, and as...

Pros: Important pro-feminist presentation of sexuality
Cons: Proof that sex really CAN be dull as dirt

Posters for ROMANCE announce that the film is "the most sexually explicit film ever made", and excluding pornography, there's no way one cannot agree. The fully visible on-screen oral, vaginal and anal sex, as well as the presence of more male...

Pros: Er, none really, unless you're a Breillat fan
Cons: Where do I begin? Graphic sex, for one...

Breillat has created yet another disturbing, vaguely feminist film emanating from her core belief that sex is the root of all angst. You will feel uncomfortable, to say the least, after seeing this movie, and if you are a woman, you might just decide to...

Pros: Nothing else like it
Cons: Maybe a bit too heavy (or graphic) for most viewers

I will reveal plot details after a warning.


Romance is one of the best films (maybe the only) to explore female sexuality. It asks, what are a woman's sexual needs? Is sex an important part of a loving relationship? And, why is...

Pros: really cool ending, raises some interesting questions
Cons: lots of boring, pretentious philosophising. Slow moving plot.

I remember seeing advertisements for this movie when I was in Europe. A review I read in a movie magazine raved about how full frontal nudity and penetration were on display in ROMANCE (unlike many recent movies about the pornography industry – such as...

Pros: one of a kind, thought provoking
Cons: some people will judge this movie solely on its sexual content

Catherine Breillat's "Romance" was billed as "the most sexually explicit mainstream movie ever." While the description is fitting, it immediately gave audiences the idea that "Romance" would have professionalism and content...

Pros: Rocco Siffredi is not a porn star for nothing.
Cons: Bad premise, horrible plot, acting OK. One of those art films full of seriousness and silly signifying nothing.

I hate to flame a female director who has the guts to put out a supposedly "shocking" art film about female desire, but for all you art film fans, let me suggest that you save your money. This is the kind of movie that is all hyped and gets...

Pros: Surreal images, fine performances, role reversal
Cons: Doesn't seem to gel

Romance caused something of a stir when it was released. It seemed to be some sort of hybrid between main stream cinema, and pornography. The actors, to all apearances, are actually having sex on screen, which is quite distasteful to some viewers...

Pros: Strong sexual content
Cons: Strong sexual content

Probably for some blind and ignorant individuals who looked at this movie as a plain piece of pornography this seemed like a waste of time and money I saw it as the epitome of the women's nature, their longing to be just as much loved physically as...

Pros: ...................
Cons: pretentious, it IS porn, pointless, plotless

Okay - the title is ironic. We know that. Sex is not romance and sexuality is not always romantic.
This film tied to tell me that it isn't porn. Okay - technically, a porn film doesn't include things like the birth-of-child part of sex, but...

Pros: Good sexuality, good performance by lead actress
Cons: Very heavy-handed at times

French writer-director Catherine Breillat likes to shock and provoke moviegoers, which she most certainly does with Romance, the story of an adventurous housewife stuck in a relationship with an impotent husband. Breillat had earlier filmed 36 Fillette,...

Pros: Daring, provocative
Cons: Too provocative?

Not everyone will like "Romance." If you did not like "Last Tango in Paris" (see my review of that movie as well), you will not like Romance.

The cover of the film has 3 sentences. "Love is Desolate. Romance is...

Pros: Sorry but there were none.
Cons: Even too graphic sexually for me.

It's not every day that you can see a well known porn star acting in serious cinema. Of course, ROMANCE is not really worthy of being called a serious film. While its theme of one woman's struggle to overcome sexual oppression is innovative, it lacks...