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'Romance' ('Romance X') is a 1999 French arthouse film written and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Caroline Ducey, Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stvenin and Franois Berland. The film features explicit copulation scenes,Anne Gillain, "Profile of a Filmmaker: Catherine Breillat" 'Beyond French Feminisms: debates on women, Politics and Culture in France, 1981 2001', edited by Roger Clestin et al. New York: Macmillan (2003): 202. Catherine Breillat's "film 'Romance' had received much praiseand criticismthe previous year for using a porn-film actor and a scene showing a nonsimulated sexual act, including a shot of an erection in the foreground." especially one showing Ducey's coitus with Siffredi. 'Romance' is one of several arthouse films featuring explicit, unsimulated sex, along with 'The Brown Bunny' (2003), '9 Songs' (2004) and 'All About Anna' (2005).

Plot



A young woman named Marie (Ducey) lives with her boyfriend, Paul (Stvenin), who refuses to have sex with her. She searches for intimacy beyond the bounds of traditional sexual limitations. She has a sexual relationship with Paolo (Siffredi), whom she meets in a bar. Her frustration also drives her to a series of relationships, until she engages in sadomasochism with an older man.

Cast



* Caroline Ducey as Marie

* Sagamore Stvenin as Paul

* Franois Berland as Robert

* Rocco Siffredi as Paolo

* Ashley Wanninger as Ashley

* Emma Colberti as Charlotte

* Fabien de Jomaron as Claude

Production



In an interview with The Post, Catherine Breillat appeared to confirm the rumors of actual on-set sex. "An actor never pretends," she said. "At the same time, I'm not perverse. I don't impose on my actors or actresses any more than is absolutely necessary. But I don't pretend. I don't simulate. The deal was, we'd go as far as we had to, as far as the film required."

Broadcasting and ratings



In Europe, 'Romance' was shown in mainstream cinemas; in the United States, it was reduced to a mainstream-acceptable R rating, and the European original version is un-rated. In the UK, the BBFC passed the film uncut for cinemas, though home releases suffered a brief cut to an ejaculation shot. In March 2004, the original version was broadcast, late-night on German public television. In Australia, the original version of 'Romance' was broadcast uncut on the cable television network World Movies. The film was initially refused classification in Australia, before it was awarded an R18+ on appeal. It single-handedly paved the way for actual sex to be accommodated in the R18+ classification in Australia.

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.[http://www.albertafilmratings.ca/dbsearch.aspx?ptitle=Romance&padvisory=&pratings=&pdistributors=Odeon%20Films&pfrommonth=10&pfromyear=1999&ptomonth=10&ptoyear=1999&pincludetrailers=False Film classification listing for 'Romance'] at Alberta Film Ratings[http://www.gov.ns.ca/lwd/agd/film/PromptExplicitMaterial.asp?id=42394&Page=1&title=Romance&G=&PG=&AA=&FA=&EA=&R=&14A=&18A=&AD=&EM=on&NA= Film classification listing for 'Romance'] at Maritime Film Classification Board (Rating is listed at bottom) In June 2008, in the Netherlands, the original version of 'Romance' was broadcast on Dutch public TV by VPRO as one of a series of 'Erotica' art house cinema.

See also



* Sadism and masochism in fiction

* Unsimulated sex

References




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