Anatomy de l'enfer
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Anatomy de l'enfer |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 88 minutes |
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| Director | Catherine Breillat |
| script | Catherine Breillat |
| production | Jean-François Lepetit |
| camera |
Yorgos Arvanitis Guillaume Schiffman |
| cut | Pascale Chavance |
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Anatomie de l'enfer (literally: “Anatomy of Hell”) is a French feature film by Catherine Breillat from 2003. In it, she addresses the male view of the female body, especially the female genitalia. It also establishes a connection between menstrual blood and the bloody wounds of Christ on the cross, as well as between tampons and hosts . When designing the pictures, she was inspired by the paintings Olympia by Édouard Manet and The Origin of the World by Gustave Courbet . The main actress Amira Casar was doubled in some shots, the male role is the porn actor Rocco Siffredi .
In Germany, the film received the title Romance 2 - Anatomy of a Woman, based on Breillat's film Romance XXX from 1999 .
action
A young woman is dragged off to a gay disco by her straight boyfriend. Because no one there expresses interest in her, she cuts her veins in the toilet. An attentive visitor rescues them and takes them to a pharmacy. She proposes a deal to him; she will pay him if he looks at her "where I am not handsome". The gay gets involved.
The man accompanies the woman to her apartment in a remote house. She strips and spreads her legs so that he can look at her vulva. Through his "neutral" (since not heterosexual) look, she hopes to find a positive attitude towards her own body. His thoughts while looking at it are conveyed by Breillat's voice. After a few nights they sleep together. The intimate closeness does not last long because her menstrual blood arouses a childhood trauma in him. The hoped-for appreciation by the man is missing because he is increasingly disgusted by her vulva and talks about women in patriarchal contempt. When she sleeps, he paints her lips, labia, and anus with red lipstick and then penetrates her anus. Then he sticks the handle of a hoe into it. He goes into a bar and leaves the money he received from the woman there. In a dream sequence he pushes her from the cliffs into the sea.
literature
- Claire Clouzot: Catherine Breillat. Indécence et pureté . Cahiers du cinéma, 2004, ISBN 2-86642-285-6 , pp. 125-137 (French)
- Douglas Keesey: Catherine Breillat . Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-7190-7530-8 , pp. 135–147 (English)
Web links
- Anatomy of Hell in the Internet Movie Database (English)