Anatomy of Hell
by Catherine Breillat
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Actor: Amira Casar, Catherine Breillat, Claudio Carvalho, Jacques Monge, Rocco SiffrediDirector: Catherine Breillat
Brand: GPI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Tartan Video
Movie Reviews of Anatomy of Hell
Movie Review: "Watch me where I'm unwatchable."
Summary: 5 Stars
"All true artists are hated. Only conformists are ever adored."--Catherine Breillat.
Catherine Breillat (1948) is a brilliant French filmmaker, director and novelist. Her films take us (particularly us uptight Americans) places we've never been before, and usually outside our comfort zones with their depictions of hard sexual truths. As a result, Breillat is often the subject of controversy for her explicit depictions of sexuality and violence. Adapted from her novel Pornocratie, Breillat's Anatomy of Hell (Anatomie de l'enfer) (2004) is perhaps her most controversial film. It stars hunky porn star Rocco Siffredi (Romance) as an Everyman character and willowy Amira Casar as the Everywoman, and basically depicts four nights of sexual politics played out in a sparse bedroom in an isolated beach house. After meeting in a gay nightclub, the woman offers to pay the man to "Watch me where I'm unwatchable," that is, to observe all that he despises in a woman because he is a homosexual. The ensuing dialogue between the two is enlightening and the sexual scenes are primal.
Throughout the film, one wonders: what is Breillat up to here? Ultimately, Anatomy of Hell is not so much a film about four nights of explicit sexuality, as a film about confronting male misogyny, brutality against women, and fear of the female anatomy. For many, this film may be disturbing. Anatomy of Hell is to Breillat what The Second Sex is to Simone de Beauvoir. Thank the French God for these Gallic bad girls. Breillat's interest in exploring hard truths about human sexuality is something I admire about French cinema in general and her films in particular. Certainly, it would be difficult to find this sexual dialogue happening anywhere else in cinema. Like all of Breillat's works, this is a film people should be debating afterwards in cafes, bars, and in their bedrooms.
G. Merritt
Summary of Anatomy of Hell
Synopsis:Item Type: Unknown Type
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 06/06/06
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: yes
Subtitlesyes
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
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