Romance (Breillat, 1999, 99 min.)

The film is about a young girl who loves her insensitive husband , but finds the discontentment she feels from her infrequent and not satisfying sexual intercourse with him pushed her into different and a variety of extra-marital relationships . She initiates to take other lovers and explore more twisted avenues of sexuality , such as being raped in a stairwell , or being tied up . The girl is giving her body away to everybody who desires it , but her mind is with him who does not desire her body . The film was crafted with bizarre understanding

and sensitivity has a psychological element , a visual element , and a real story . Although , some of the scenes can only or normally be seen in a porn film , it doesn 't show eroticism . Even though the film has a many graphic sexual activity I don 't consider it as erotic . It is a drama with the crucial sex scenes and a clever plot . The film is really about a woman 's search for emotional satisfaction and her modus operandi that doesn 't allow her to achieve it . The extramarital relationship scenes equally showed cold unconscious and insincere relationships which are ultimately self-destructive . The vital fact about this film is that while sex is portrayed with clean and tidy openness , violence is metaphorical , concealed from view . They focused on the emotions of the girl and since she is submissive in most of them , she often communicates through her facial expressions . The film provided a very fine actress and...