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Anatomy of Hell (2004)

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Reviews Counted:34

Fresh:9

Rotten:25

Average Rating:3.6/10

Consensus: Ponderous, pretentious, and -- considering the subject matter -- dull.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Oct 15, 2004 Limited

Synopsis: Over the course of her career as a writer and filmmaker, Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) has never shied away from controversial topics, using both mediums to explore her strong feminist... Over the course of her career as a writer and filmmaker, Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) has never shied away from controversial topics, using both mediums to explore her strong feminist opinions. Joining a generation of similarly taboo-breaking French directors such as Francois Ozon and Gaspar Noé, Breillat has no problem displaying explicit material to her audience and forcing them to confront their own assumptions about the relations between men and women. In ANATOMY OF HELL, based on her own novel, she presents a largely allegorical scenario positing that all men are inherently fearful of female sexuality. A gay man (ex-porn star Rocco Siffredi) prevents a woman (former Chanel and Gaultier model Amira Casar) from killing herself in a nightclub. Thrown together by this fated moment, she offers to pay him to watch her in the most intimate way--leading to a confrontational exploration of male and female psychology and misogyny. Never one to back down from the controversial, Catherine Breillat's explicit film ANATOMY OF HELL is perhaps the work that gets closest to her theoretical preoccupations. [More]

Starring: Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi

Starring: Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi

Director: Catherine Breillat

Director: Catherine Breillat
Studio: Tartan Films

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10/18/08
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A waste of cinema, and of precious time.

Full Review Source: Cinema Writer | comment Comment
08/19/06
Jay Antani
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Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out

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

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
01/24/05
Eric Henderson
Eric Henderson
Slant Magazine

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

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
01/16/05
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
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Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/15/05
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
01/07/05
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

Vagina dialogue this may be, but it seems much more like a bunch of arse.

Full Review Source: Movie Gazette | comment Comment
11/26/04
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette

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.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
11/23/04
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
BBC

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.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
11/12/04
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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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.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
11/12/04
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

Forget the Anatomy, this is just plain Hell.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
11/12/04
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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Plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
11/12/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A ponderous but very, very explicit exploration of gender roles and fears that frequently seems like a parody of the genre.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
11/11/04
Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas
Chicago Tribune
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Ultimately less reminiscent of similarly themed efforts like Last Tango in Paris than of an explicit health education training film.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
11/04/04
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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No one takes the fun out of sex like Catherine Breillat.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
11/03/04
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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10/28/04
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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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 Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
10/20/04
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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It offends because it is so empty-headed and seemingly gratuitous in the sludge it offers up.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
10/19/04
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

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

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
10/15/04
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
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