Guilty of Romance

Name: Guilty of Romance
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: January 18, 2013
Duration: 144 min
Rating: 56

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Olive Films | Release Date: January 18, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: The final chapter of Sion Sono’s Hate Trilogy follows the wife of a famous novelist as she explores her sexuality.

Director: Shion Sono

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 144 min

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Miriam Bale

Mar 13, 2014

Most disturbing and fascinating is the mixture of Izumi’s liberation with her degradation in this film, which plays like a more horrific version of David Lynch’s “Mullholland Drive.” Read full review

Diego Semerene

Mar 10, 2014

Though it begins with the aesthetic and conceptual rigor of Blade Runner, it quickly veers toward the gratuitous outlandishness of a Bruce La Bruce film. Read full review

Philip Kemp

Mar 10, 2014

Filmed in garish colours like an explosion in a paint factory, it’s more style than content, but diverting all the same. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Mar 13, 2014

There are too many twists, insignificant literary references and drawn-out scenes of sex and violence to sustain either the pic’s running time or its ideas, with Sono’s message obscured in the final reels by an ambiguous treatment of his leading ladies. Read full review

Pete Vonder Haar

Mar 11, 2014

Mostly, Guilty of Romance seems content allowing characters to verbally abuse each other before eventually reaching the inevitable conclusion that life is a burden and all love is illusory. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Mar 13, 2014

Although the film’s dark humor and colorful, thriller aesthetics provide some juicy material at the beginning, its overindulgence in chatter, fornication and occasional gore feels too blatant to make Sono’s social commentary run anywhere but skin-deep. Read full review

The Guardian Xan Brooks

Mar 10, 2014

The pungent, ponderous final chapter of Sono's "Hate" trilogy (following Love Exposure and Cold Fish) bows out with lots of bangs and plenty of whimper. Read full review

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