441:"The plot is hardcore thin: a woman (Amira Casar) cruises a gay club and pays broody stud (porn star Rocco Siffredi) to spend four nights with her. A challengingly explicit delve into the female body (often quite literally), it's a unique cinematic example of feminist existential porn.... Yet perversely, it's also 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. No wonder Rocco looks so shell-shocked: this is sex not as comedy, but as the deepest, darkest male nightmare."
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Teetering on the edge of overwhelming ennui, a lonely and dejected woman pays a gay man to join her for a daring, four-day exploration of sexuality, in which both of them reject all convention and smash all boundaries while locked away from society in an isolated estate. Only when the man and woman
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summarizes: "After attempting suicide in the bathroom of a gay disco, a woman hires the man who rescues her to spend four nights in her company, challenging him to 'watch me where I'm unwatchable'."
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stated: "I remember when hard-core first became commonplace, and there were discussions about what it would be like if a serious director ever made a porn movie. The answer, judging by
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Siffredi recalled that when
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gave the film zero stars and said the film was "homophobic" and "unintentionally funny".
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film critic Jamie
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The film was adapted by writer/director
Breillat from her novel
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1081:LGBTQ-related controversies in film
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369:João Marques as boy playing doctor
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1061:2000s LGBTQ-related drama films
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16:2004 film by Catherine Breillat
1071:Portuguese LGBTQ-related films
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624:"Culture: Is it art or porn?"
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401:Rocco Siffredi as "the man".
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285:film written and directed by
1021:Films based on French novels
580:Special Broadcasting Service
419:The film polarized critics.
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1016:2000s French-language films
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447:Philadelphia Film Festival
289:, based on her 2001 novel
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1041:French erotic drama films
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1066:Portuguese drama films
1031:Films shot in Portugal
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1046:French feminist films
683:BBC Movies review of
94:Jean-François Lepetit
86:by Catherine Breillat
1011:2000s feminist films
656:(11 November 2004).
488:Anatomie de l'enfer
376:Maria Edite Moreira
348:as blow-job lover 2
342:as blow-job lover 1
275:Anatomie de l'enfer
132:Guillaume Schiffman
51:Anatomie de l'enfer
1076:2000s French films
865:Catherine Breillat
863:Films directed by
694:, 22 November 2004
334:Catherine Breillat
287:Catherine Breillat
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65:Catherine Breillat
1056:Gay-related films
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955:Abuse of Weakness
948:La belle endormie
933:The Last Mistress
877:A Real Young Girl
743:"Anatomy of Hell"
628:femalefirst.co.uk
502:. 4 November 2004
454:review aggregator
382:Maria João Santos
297:is a "sequel" to
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322:Amira Casar
291:Pornocratie
106:Amira Casar
91:Produced by
83:Pornocratie
61:Directed by
986:2004 films
980:Categories
812:Metacritic
748:Metacritic
638:30 January
472:References
462:Metacritic
395:Pornocracy
389:Production
330:as the man
254:Box office
224:77 minutes
207:2004-01-28
192:2004-01-23
175:Rézo Films
160:Flach Film
150:Production
941:Bluebeard
586:31 August
526:Cineuropa
415:Reception
399:porn star
257:$ 345,365
229:Countries
198:Rotterdam
152:companies
141:Edited by
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790:AllMovie
558:17 April
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456:website
246:Language
238:Portugal
163:CB Films
99:Starring
79:Based on
893:Romance
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280:erotic
270:French
249:French
235:France
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494:(18)"
283:drama
779:IMDb
756:2015
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