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| Romance |
A stunningly frank examination of sex and love,
Romance followed in the footsteps of, and was inspired by, Oshima's masterpiece
In the Realm of the Senses.
Breillat garnered worldwide attention with this sexually explicit fable of a young woman (Caroline Ducey) whose withholding lover (Sagamore Stévenin) drives her into infidelity and self-discovery.
Flirting with the style and substance of pornography,
Romance challenged audience notions of what should and shouldn't be shown in a motion picture - and while the film had no taboos, it also demonstrated how words and images can obscure as much as they reveal.
