A sophomoric and carnal view of the world - there is absolutely nothing in this movie worth watching, unless you enjoy pornography or suffer from an uncontrollable urge to gawk at that which is disgusting and unwatchable.
If Catherine Breillat aspired to be deep or far reaching in this creation, she needs a few lessons from Hitchcock: it's the subtle and *unseen* that is profound, not the shocking. This movie is over before it begins, and is helplessly drawn to sex scenes, just like porn, because it truly has nothing else to show. A movie like the "Unbearable Lightness of Being" or "Dangerous Liaisons" are only a few examples in sex topic space that show what a piece of trash "Romance" is.
If Catherine Breillat aspired to be deep or far reaching in this creation, she needs a few lessons from Hitchcock: it's the subtle and *unseen* that is profound, not the shocking. This movie is over before it begins, and is helplessly drawn to sex scenes, just like porn, because it truly has nothing else to show. A movie like the "Unbearable Lightness of Being" or "Dangerous Liaisons" are only a few examples in sex topic space that show what a piece of trash "Romance" is.