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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Adult Audience Movies, Erotic Videos, Comedies, Foreign Films, Sex, French, Romantic Comedy, Love Affairs | | Starring | Caroline Ducey, Francois Berleand, Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stevenin | | Director | Catherine Breillat | | Producer | Jean Francois Lepetit | | Screenwriter | Catherine Breillat |
This feature film is a DVD. To gain control of her life, a young woman embarks on a provocative, erotic adventure tha t breaks the boundaries of traditional limitations. When Marie's maudlin boyfriend Paul refuses to engage in sexual relations, ... Full Descriptionshe is forced to search for intimacy beyond the bounds of traditional sexual limitations--a journey that proves to be both fulfilling and empowering.Romance Reviews: "...Original and emotionally powerful. ROMANCE is both fascinating and disturbing..."
-- Ginette Vincendeau, Sight and Sound "...Breillat brings fresh vision....An emotional authenticity we can't dismiss..."
-- Stephen Farber, Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Watching it is a memorable experience for several reasons. Not least of these is its blunt, hard-core frankness..."
-- Janet Maslin, New York Times "...[ROMANCE] breaks cinematic ground....Enthralling..."-- Luisa F. Ribeiro, Box Office
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Purchase Romance Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Lies DVD (1999) Widescreen
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$16.05 Jang Sun Woo's GOJITMAL (LIES) is a disturbing, sexually charged, highly erotic film based on a book by Jang Jung Il, TELL ME A LIE, that was banned in Korea for its pornographic content. The film tells the story of Y (Kim Tae Yeon), an 18-year-old girl ready to explore her sexuality, and J (Lee Sang Hyun), a married 38-year-old sculptor who is excited at the chance to deflower her. What starts out as a minor sexual tryst, however, soon turns into an obsessive relationship laden with guilt, lies, and sado-masochism--Y and J both need the pain of whipping in order to satisfied their naked desires.
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$16.59 A man wakes in mid-afternoon in a grungy London apartment. A woman knocks at the door. He lets her in, to an awkward silence. She touches his face tenderly--almost immediately they have stripped and are making love on a mattress on the floor. It is the first of many intense, real-time, sexually explicit encounters between Jay (Mark Rylance) and Claire (Kerry Fox). And director Patrice Chéreau reinforces the intensity by keeping his wide-screen camera very close to the actors.
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$18.85 From his current post in Antarctica, British glaciologist Matt (Kieran O'Brien), recalls how he met Lisa (Margo Stilley), a 21-year-old American student. They were at a rock concert at London's Brixton Academy, and he took her back to his apartment for sex. This began a brief relationship, which is revealed as Matt remembers and comments on its milestones--mainly the other concerts they attended and their significant sexual experiences--before their initial sexual attraction waned and they were forced to part.
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Romance Movie Review Average Rating: (2.9 out of 5 stars)    List All Reviews Interesting Movie was very good. will directed. couldn't understand the talking part, but following the script was good enough. was worth purchasing. Submitted by a reviewer (W. Belmar NJ USA)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful.
A dime-store pulp movie Like Anatomy of Hell, Ms. Breillat's other MISadventure in sexual la-la land, Romance has no real narrative, and the sub-titled dialogue, you should excuse the expression, is juvenile and laughable. Maybe it's more credible in French. The often-dazzling cinematography is the only star here. Ms. Ducey is bland and insufferable in the lead role. We want to 'feel' her plight, but as an actor, the one-expression (pouty) Ducey is just too aloof and distant. I think (who knows with Breillat?) that this movie is about the 'profound' inner feelings of a woman. Here, these feelings are, through 98 excruciating minutes, exclusively about sex. This is an amazingly shallow woman; the dialogue reveals that there is no profundity to her at all. The meaning of life (and this film) is that maternity 'completes' a woman. How original. Breillat and Ducey just can't redeem this awful waste of time. The X-rated stuff, and there's a lot of it, is pedestrian, uninspired and UNerotic. If that's one of Breillat's points, she should learn something about subtlety; she should also learn something about how to write dialogue. There are flat-out irredeemable porn flicks with more understanding of woman's condition in the world. Submitted by wmmacd (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful.
Interesting point of view This movie shows an insane and ill relationship. The woman here is totally free to explore her sexuality and reach all her limits. Great rhythm, dialogues, monologues, characters, fantasies and sexual desires. Explicit sex images with justified artistic intentions. Provocative and extreme. Works. Submitted by vfalcon (Lima, Peru)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
Daring to Go Where Few Cinema Movies Go This movie is best watched in it's original French language, with English sub-titles.
Romance is a daring movie in some ways. Although the relationship of the heroine with her husband is a strange and unhealthy one, this "regular" movie makes its mark by not fading to black or panning to the ceiling whenever the sexuality gets too real. The camera is simply left to run and capture everything.
The first instance of this occurs early, when the heroine trys to ellicit some interest in her husband by giving him oral sex. We've seen this before, although rarely, in films such as "Innocence." Romance goes further, however. A pick-up bar lands our lass with "Rocco" (star and producer of true "porn"). Their scene together dosn't shy away from the intimate act, the way almost all non-porn films do. It may be simulated sex, because its not explicit enough to "know for sure." However, the lead-up to intercourse is definitely not fake. It is somewhat refreshing to watch a movie that depicts all of life's events, especially one such as sex, that is a key part of many people's lives and interests.
The movie also dabbles with bondage as part of dominant/submissive play. This is also a topic rarely portrayed in cinema, but practised to an ever greater degree within the general population.
Another instance where this movie goes beyond the boundaries in which most cinema confines itself, is in the medical examination room. The star of this movie continues to exhibit a rare daringness for an actress, when the film depicts interns learning their trade in doing physical pelvic examinations. One by one, each of the interns, including a female, takes their turn doing an "internal" examination. The camera is left in wide angle, affording no mistake about the nature of the examination.
As a movie, Romance is average entertainment. However, for pushing the boundary of what can be shown in a non-porn, regular film, Romance stands out as a pioneering piece of cinema. Submitted by RAZ (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
..a truly love-hate relationship with lots of sex !! exellent pictures kudos to the lady director and the main actress for her
magistral debute!! Submitted by STEREOSAM (san antonio,tx)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
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