It cries out for interpretation, but then it doesn’t trust us to do it — the movie helpfully interprets itself at every turn.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 2, 2022

a difficult film to love - perhaps as difficult as Marie finds it to love Paul - although there is something in its exploration of gender norms, deviant desires and the split between body and mind that remains compelling to the finish.

| Jul 15, 2019

Romance can't be easily shrugged off. Breillat and her brave actors take us places we haven't been. For the audience, as well as Marie, it's a journey that has few signposts.

| Mar 6, 2018

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Breillat is less interested in the sex acts than their deeper meaning.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2009

Porn has never been so sleep-inducing.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 15, 2007

The bottom line is acting out sexual urges and fantasies normally acceptable only in male characters, as the actress philosophizes with an assortment of cocks, determined to 'rape myself,' in a clinical orgy with a roomful of aspiring young gynecologists.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2007

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 14, 2003

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2002

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

thought-provoking and truthful ...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2001

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 14, 2001

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000

Romance is explicit but not titillating

| Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000