Her latest, Anatomy of Hell, doesn't so much straddle the fine line between art and porn as balance, bleeding, on the knife's edge between trenchant and pretentious.

| Jun 28, 2013

A waste of cinema, and of precious time.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 19, 2006

The ultimate lesson being taught isn't how homosexuality can be transposed to kinky hetero sex games.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2005

I hate this movie, but only because it hated me first.

| Original Score: F | Jan 16, 2005

Breillat reduces sexuality to the basest coupling of body parts, and Anatomy of Hell reduces film to freak-show voyeurism.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jan 7, 2005

One of the most groundbreaking films in recent memory in terms of both the explicitness of its sexuality and its commitment to such an austere intellectual discourse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2004

The movie strongly suggests that to be gay is to be a misogynist, that all men wish to do violence to women and that being female is the same as being miserable.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 12, 2004

Given that [Breillat's] premise is that all men are guilty and all women are victims in the same manner, the film becomes a ridiculous socio-political rant, not a drama about the complexity of real life.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 12, 2004

Forget the Anatomy, this is just plain Hell.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 12, 2004

Plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 12, 2004

A ponderous but very, very explicit exploration of gender roles and fears that frequently seems like a parody of the genre.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 11, 2004

Ultimately less reminiscent of similarly themed efforts like Last Tango in Paris than of an explicit health education training film.

Full Review | Nov 4, 2004

No one takes the fun out of sex like Catherine Breillat.

| Original Score: D | Nov 3, 2004

| Original Score: D+ | Nov 1, 2004

Breillat uses this man and woman on a bed (sometimes only he is clothed, and sometimes the two of them are naked) as a way of exploring the meaning of women's bodies from social, political and personal angles, instead of purely sensual ones.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2004

It offends because it is so empty-headed and seemingly gratuitous in the sludge it offers up.

| Oct 19, 2004

It might not be a film that can be taken too literally, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be taken seriously.

| Original Score: 71/100 | Oct 15, 2004

Not since Pia Zadora's The Lonely Lady has a gardening tool been so violated.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 15, 2004

It's an admirably bold film, Siffredi is surprisingly good, and it's filled with images you're not likely to see anywhere else.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2004

Breillat, as usual, leaves us gasping.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 15, 2004