Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand, Rocco Siffredi
Like Nagisa Oshima's erotic masterpiece In the Realm of the Senses (1976), this film's shockingly graphic depiction of sex blurs the line between art and pornography. Marie (Caroline Ducey) is unfulfi... read more 
DVD Release Date: February 8, 2000
Stats: 337 reviews
if you wish to preserve any of those idealistic notions about womankind (about yourself, if you were woman), stay away from any picture made by catherine breillat, whose viewpoints toward woman are the most misogynistic than ever!
Usually I am completely taken in by films with naked women and lots of sex, but with Catherine Breillat's Romance - not so much. The title is completely misleading. There's actually very little romance to be found. Instead, we are witness to a woman's spiraling decline ... read more
Crazy and weird of a young French female schoolteacher who tests her sexuality by submitting herself to various transgressive sexual encounters. Ugly and pointless.
Don't let the title fool you. If anything this is anti anything the word Romance might imply. A really clever, dark psycholgical erotic drama that is at times pretty disturbing and should appeal to fans of films like Breaking the Waves, Secretary or The Piano Teacher. Caroline Du... read more
This movie is an indepent film (European) about some psycho chick who sleeps with everybody. Chick jumps on every jock that walks by but REALLY loves her boyfriend. You may ask why I bothered to watch this at all - well as it is European there are some sex scenes in there. If ... read more
Gave this one a re-watch, it still holds up as well as a detached, clinical look at a failing relationship can.
Catherine Breillat has always made film that I more respect than like, as they tackle uncomfortable subject matter that you don't see in the average run of normal cine... read more
Dreadful. Another cinema-lacking work from Breillat where she puppets her philosophy plainly into her cheap characters. I'm starting to think that À ma Sur was a fluke, as Breillat films the same way before and after that anomaly. Breillat films Romance with a dry and immature st... read more
This film is ice cold and Caroline Ducey is magnificent in the lead. One of the most intellectually erotic films Catherine Breillat has manufactired. This is her masterpiece. Sexy, sad, creepy, and real co-exist all at once.
"Love between men & women, let it be said again, is a devious conflict."
Im a big CBreillat fan, but I wish she had used a woman instead of a girl for the lead. The story was intense & would have been so much better with a full-fleshed woman, such as JBinoche. And, yessss, RS... read more
Porn has never been so sleep-inducing.
The bottom line is acting out sexual urges and fantasies normally acceptable only in male characters, as the actress philosophizes with an assortment of cocks, determined to 'rape myself,' in a clinic...
thought-provoking and truthful ...
The film wavers between being a philosophical treatise on women and one about a woman's passions. Full Review
Romance is explicit but not titillating Full Review
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