Romance

This film is not currently available on DVD. Film Description Controversial and explicit film, striking at the heart of conditioned erotic expectations, wittily and ruthlessly questioning redundant male fantasies of intimacy, desire, longing and fulfillment. "A feminist update of Emmanuelle" Sunday Times.

Film Details Director Catherine Breillat Starring Caroline Ducey, Rocco Siffredi, Francois Berleand   Country France Language FRENCH   Year 1999

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Review by TG on 15th April 2000

The kind of film only a militant feminist could make. Antecedents in 'Belle De Jour' and 'The Ages of Lulu' but is far too one sided and biased to make the same academic points as the earlier films. It would have been a much better film had it been more objective. Still, it had great performances from Ducey & Berland and good, yet not spectacular, cinematography.

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Article - "Catherine Breillat: Taking Sex Seriously" by John Hoyles
Friday 31st May 2002

In her lively and literate review of `the works of filmmaker Catherine Breillat', entitled A Matter of Skin (1999), the American critic Kathleen Murphy calls Breillat `a wild child who matured early, a provincial loner steeped in the likes of Sade and Lautream...  View article in full

Article - "The Realm of the Censors" by John Hoyles
Tuesday 29th August 2000

Yes, it's out on video, even in Pudding Island, the most ferocious film ever made about sexual obsession. Watch it in the light of the following touchstones: 'Pornography is an appropriate means to cure our society from its genital panic' (Otto Muehl); 'To imagine is...  View article in full

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