Romance XXX

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Movie
German title Romance XXX
Original title Romance
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1999
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Catherine Breillat
script Catherine Breillat
production Jean-François Lepetit ,
Catherine Jacques (executing)
music Raphaël Tidas ,
DJ Valentin
camera Yorgos Arvanitis
cut Agnes Guillemot
occupation

Romance XXX (alternate titles: Romance and Romance X) with the subtitle What do you know about men? is a film by Catherine Breillat from the year 1999 .

action

Marie and Paul are a couple. She loves him, but he refuses to sleep with her. This does not lead to the couple breaking up, but to a series of sexual adventures on the part of Marie. She sleeps with all kinds of men and lets herself be seduced into bondage sex. She actually becomes pregnant from her only sexual act with Paul. Paul dies in a gas explosion that Marie deliberately causes in their shared apartment. Finally, Marie gives birth to a son whom she names after her deceased partner.

background

Romance XXX has sparked controversial discussions around the world, primarily because of its considerable range of sexual practices. The appearance of porn star Rocco Siffredi in a guest role also drew a lot of attention to the film. Even so, it is far from normal pornographic films. Not least because he completely dispenses with the usual imagery - and even breaks with it. When Marie use can, that's not exciting, but more disturbing. It shows a young woman who is not (yet) able to cope with her life and sexuality.

Another difference from almost all porn films is the self-contained plot. It is not the sex scenes that dictate the path of the film; sexual scenes only illustrate Marie's path in history and are never ends in themselves.

Catherine Breillat was very concerned that members of her team would stop filming if they found out that a professional porn actor was starring in it. She announced this to the team only one day before the scene was shot. Only the sound engineer protested, stating that this was not a cinema.

The movie poster was banned in the United States.

Movie review

Despite the obvious differences to pornographic films and the recognition of the dramatic plot, many critics complained that the film was just boring in the end and (despite bondage) was never really able to captivate.

  • Merten Worthmann writes in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit that battles are fought in romance that have long been fought. It's no longer about sexual freedom, but about its questionable harvest. To the critic, the film seems too bold, too little oriented towards concrete fate: In the film, “simulation games” are carried out with “eloquent cardboard comrades in front of a signal color backdrop”.
  • The Lexicon of International Films congratulates the director on her relaxed portrayal of sexuality without any false shame. Romance is anything but a porn film. The film bluntly portrays a woman's search for meaning, “uncompromisingly and in all its contradictions”. On the other hand, the reviewer Hans Jörg Marsilius sees a certain “theses” and “overstylization” in the film, which robbed him of vitality and persuasiveness.
  • Rüdiger Suchsland judged in the film magazine "artechock" that the film was only offensive in so far as it undermined common patterns. It literally says: "Otherwise, romance is a tough, unoyeuristic film, clever and radical, sometimes brittle, but also ironic - an imposition in the best possible sense."
  • The critic Michael Dlugosch found the dialogues and the end of the film to be clichéd. But overall, romance is a remarkable contribution to film art, the poetic images will be remembered for a long time, he praises on "filmrezension.de".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Merten Worthmann: Compliance with the combat zone . In: Die Zeit , No. 25/2000
  2. ^ Romance XXX. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ artechock.de
  4. ↑ filmrezension.de