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  • 1999
  • R
  • Trimark Pictures
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Trimark Pictures
  • 1 h 24 m

Summary A provocative portrait of a young French woman, Marie (Trousselard), and her journey to gain control of her life. Marie embarks on an escalating sexual journey that tests her own physical and emotional limits, and which, through an ironic twist-of-fate, eventually leads to her fulfillment. (Trimark Pictures)

Directed By: Catherine Breillat

Written By: Catherine Breillat

  • 1999
  • R
  • Trimark Pictures
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Trimark Pictures
  • 1 h 24 m

Romance

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
49
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
6.8
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Summary A provocative portrait of a young French woman, Marie (Trousselard), and her journey to gain control of her life. Marie embarks on an escalating sexual journey that tests her own physical and emotional limits, and which, through an ironic twist-of-fate, eventually leads to her fulfillment. (Trimark Pictures)

Directed By: Catherine Breillat

Written By: Catherine Breillat

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Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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35% Positive
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38% Mixed
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27% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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35% Positive
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38% Mixed
10 Reviews
27% Negative
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90
One of the best films of this year...unlike anything you've seen on the big screen.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
75
I did not really enjoy this movie, and yet I recommend it. Why? Because I think it's on to something interesting. Here is a movie about a woman who never stops thinking. That may not be as good for you as it is for her.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
63
A singularly cheerless trip, explicit but sterile, racy but dull.
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
50
Hovers between passion and philosophical argument without fully achieving its ambition to fuse the two.
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50
Lots of sex, but little joy.
By Jay Carr FULL REVIEW
25
Catherine Breillat's pretentious, meandering, self-indulgent portrait of a libidinously deprived young woman is nothing more than pornography tricked out as feminist parable.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
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The film so strongly fixates on strange, explicit sexual acts that it forgoes any emotional (i.e. romantic) aspects of sex.
By Christopher Brandon FULL REVIEW

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24% Mixed
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24% Negative
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Production Company Flach Film, CB Films, Arte France Cinéma, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Canal+
Release Date Sep 17, 1999
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Love is desolate. Romance is temporary. Sex is forever.
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Awards

British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Nomination

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