list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Romance on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Romance/130763/default.aspx Title: Romance
Year: 1999
Director: Catherine Breillat
Plot: 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 unfulfilled by her relationship with Paul (Sagamore Stévenin), her narcissistic male model boyfriend, who refuses to show her any kind of physical affection, much less make love to her. Frustrated, she decides to take matters into her own hands, and she finds one night of tenderness and passion in the arms of Paolo, a man she met in a bar, played by Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi. Later, she is seduced by an older man, Robert (François Berléand), who introduces her to bondage and sadomasochism. As she allows herself to be bound, gagged, and forced into bizarre contortions, her flirtation with the wild side pushes her into increasingly frightening and degrading situations. Yet, like Catherine Deneuve's Sévérine in Belle de jour (1967), after each tryst she returns to her emotionally remote boyfriend as if nothing happened. One night, taken by Marie's renewed vitality, Paul holds her and begins to make love to her. Although he selfishly withdraws halfway through and casts her aside, he manages to impregnate her; after he proposes, Marie begins to feel society's constraints on her newly liberated sexuality, and she eventually decides to take violent action to salvage it. Unlike most sexually explicit works, the film is expressed from the female perspective. Director Catherine Breillat places the viewer inside Marie's mind through the camera's point-of-view, which in one scene lingers lovingly on Siffredi's camera-friendly anatomy, and through Marie's voice-overs, which provide access to her private thoughts. Brought to life by Ducey's tour-de-force performance, Romance is a confrontational yet emotional work that is not easy to forget. The film premiered at the 1999 Rotterdam Film Festival and was screened at the 1999 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:20:58 GMTRomance1999Catherine BreillatLike <a href="/players/P___105229/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Nagisa Oshima</a>'s erotic masterpiece <a href=/films/16932/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>In the Realm of the Senses</a> (1976), this film's shockingly graphic depiction of sex blurs the line between art and pornography. Marie (<a href="/players/P___267722/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Caroline Ducey</a>) is unfulfilled by her relationship with Paul (Sagamore Stévenin), her narcissistic male model boyfriend, who refuses to show her any kind of physical affection, much less make love to her. Frustrated, she decides to take matters into her own hands, and she finds one night of tenderness and passion in the arms of Paolo, a man she met in a bar, played by Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi. Later, she is seduced by an older man, Robert (François Berléand), who introduces her to bondage and sadomasochism. As she allows herself to be bound, gagged, and forced into bizarre contortions, her flirtation with the wild side pushes her into increasingly frightening and degrading situations. Yet, like <a href="/players/P____18574/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Catherine Deneuve</a>'s Sévérine in <a href=/films/51593/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Belle de jour</a> (1967), after each tryst she returns to her emotionally remote boyfriend as if nothing happened. One night, taken by Marie's renewed vitality, Paul holds her and begins to make love to her. Although he selfishly withdraws halfway through and casts her aside, he manages to impregnate her; after he proposes, Marie begins to feel society's constraints on her newly liberated sexuality, and she eventually decides to take violent action to salvage it. Unlike most sexually explicit works, the film is expressed from the female perspective. Director <a href="/players/P____82912/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Catherine Breillat</a> places the viewer inside Marie's mind through the camera's point-of-view, which in one scene lingers lovingly on Siffredi's camera-friendly anatomy, and through Marie's voice-overs, which provide access to her private thoughts. Brought to life by Ducey's tour-de-force performance, Romance is a confrontational yet emotional work that is not easy to forget. The film premiered at the 1999 Rotterdam Film Festival and was screened at the 1999 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide39Tag Target (>10)413http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t06772qckxw.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Romance/130763/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2007/8/15/18156.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: indieWIRE has the full lineup for the 2007 New York Film Festival, which is about six weeks away. Pretty much everything I expected to see on this lineup made it, including the highly anticipated latest works by Noah Baumbach, Julian Schnabel, Todd Haynes and Gus Van Sant. But there are also some surprises — who could have foreseen a doc about Don Rickles made by the guy who directed “Thriller”? You can click here to read the whole thing, but here are what stand out to me as highlights: Blade Runner: The Definitive Cut  Ridley Scott promises this is the last time he or anyone else is going to tinker with his now-considered-classic 1982 slice of dystopia. NYFF will screen this new version in advance of its upcoming release on DVD, in honor of the film’s 25th year anniversary. The Axe in the Attic An ultra-selective festival with no separate program for documentaries, NYFF is usually fairly light on non-fiction films. Of the handful of docs on this year’s slate, I’m most interested in this collaboration from Lucia Small and Ed Pincus delves into “the hardships and sorrows of the Gulf Coast Diaspora two years after Hurricane Katrina.” The Last Mistress Catherine Breillat’s adaptation of Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s An Old Mistress is the Romance director’s most expensive film to date, and by some reports, her most conventional. It’s also one of two films on the NYFF lineup to star divisive sexpot Asia Argento, after Abel Ferrara’s Go Go Tales. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Running Down a Dream “Rarely, if ever, has the history and development of a major rock band been explored with the care and the depth with which Peter Bogdanovich approaches Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,” promises the press release. I’m just interested to see what Bogdanovich has been doing since his last comeback, 2001’s The Cat’s Meow. Originally posted on:Spoutblog
]]>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:01:16 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com8/15/2007 4:01:16 PMindieWIRE has the full lineup for the 2007 New York Film Festival, which is about six weeks away. Pretty much everything I expected to see on this lineup made it, including the highly anticipated latest works by Noah Baumbach, Julian Schnabel, Todd Haynes and Gus Van Sant. But there are also some surprises — who could have foreseen a doc about Don Rickles made by the guy who directed “Thriller”? You can click here to read the whole thing, but here are what stand out to me as highlights: Blade Runner: The Definitive Cut  Ridley Scott promises this is the last time he or anyone else is going to tinker with his now-considered-classic 1982 slice of dystopia. NYFF will screen this new version in advance of its upcoming release on DVD, in honor of the film’s 25th year anniversary. The Axe in the Attic An ultra-selective festival with no separate program for documentaries, NYFF is usually fairly light on non-fiction films. Of the handful of docs on this year’s slate, I’m most interested in this collaboration from Lucia Small and Ed Pincus delves into “the hardships and sorrows of the Gulf Coast Diaspora two years after Hurricane Katrina.” The Last Mistress Catherine Breillat’s adaptation of Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s An Old Mistress is the Romance director’s most expensive film to date, and by some reports, her most conventional. It’s also one of two films on the NYFF lineup to star divisive sexpot Asia Argento, after Abel Ferrara’s Go Go Tales. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Running Down a Dream “Rarely, if ever, has the history and development of a major rock band been explored with the care and the depth with which Peter Bogdanovich approaches Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,” promises the press release. I’m just interested to see what Bogdanovich has been doing since his last comeback, 2001’s The Cat’s Meow. Originally posted on:Spoutblog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/love/MemberTagFilms.aspxlove
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