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The ironically titled Romance engendered controversy in France, triggering heated "art or porn?" debates. Passed un-edited by the BBFC, the film's narrator is the alluring Marie (Ducey), a dyslexic school teacher whose male model boyfriend no longer wants sex. She resolves to continue to love him while sleeping with other men, and embarks on a sexual odyssey - with profound results. Her first pick-up is the extremely well-hung Paolo (Siffredi), swiftly followed by bondage fetishist Robert (Berleand)...
Written and directed by Catherine Breillat, this is an unflinching and undeniably explicit examination of female sexual desire. But, hamstrung by some highly pretentious voice-over dialogue, it's also a cold and disturbing piece of work.
As the woman driven through degrading encounters by sado-masochistic impulses, however, newcomer Ducey's performance is courageous.
The Inside Out 2 panic attack scene is one of the best depictions of anxiety ever – and something Pixar director Kelsey Mann is incredibly proud of: "I couldn't be happier"
When making Kingdom Hearts, the "one thing" RPG icon Tetsuya Nomura "wasn't willing to budge on" was a non-Disney protagonist
The Witcher fans in shambles after a new book reveals just how old Geralt really is
