Romance (1999 film)

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Romance

Romance DVD cover
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Produced by Jean-François Lepetit
Written by Catherine Breillat
Starring Caroline Ducey
Rocco Siffredi
François Berléand
Music by Raphaël Tidas
DJ Valentin
Cinematography Yorgos Arvanitis
Distributed by Trimark Pictures Inc.
Release date(s) September 17, 1999
Running time 99 mins. (93 mins.)(84 mins.)
Country France
Language French
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Romance (Romance X) is a 1999 French movie written and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Caroline Ducey, erotic actor Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stévenin and François Berléand. The film contains several sex scenes that appear to have been unsimulated, especially the famous scene showing Caroline Ducey's coitus from behind with an erect Rocco Siffredi (who is not brought to completion, though). This film inspired the recent trend of serious artistic films with explicit, unsimulated sex scenes such as: All About Anna, Sex and Lucia, Shortbus and 9 Songs.

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Marie is a schoolteacher who is deeply in love with her boyfriend, a model, who does not have sex with her. She explores increasingly risky sexual encounters with other men, including a BDSM relationship with a member of staff who works at the same school. Though she is impregnated by her boyfriend, in the end she kills him.


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Romance was shown in mainstream cinemas in Europe. In the U.S., the original version is unrated, and an edited version received an R rating. In March 2004, the unedited film was broadcast late at night on German public TV, leading to some protests. The film has also been shown on the Australian cable TV network "World Movies" in its uncut form. In Canada, particularly in Alberta and the Maritimes, the sexuality was seen as gratuitous to the film and it was given an A rating and XXX rating in those regions.

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