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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.
Forget the Anatomy, this is just plain Hell.
Plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians.
A ponderous but very, very explicit exploration of gender roles and fears that frequently seems like a parody of the genre.
Ultimately less reminiscent of similarly themed efforts like Last Tango in Paris than of an explicit health education training film.
No one takes the fun out of sex like Catherine Breillat.
A waste of cinema, and of precious time.
More than you ever wanted to know about the vagina, which isn't good enough for Catherine Breillat.
The ultimate lesson being taught isn't how homosexuality can be transposed to kinky hetero sex games.
I hate this movie, but only because it hated me first.
Breillat reduces sexuality to the basest coupling of body parts, and Anatomy of Hell reduces film to freak-show voyeurism.
Vagina dialogue this may be, but it seems much more like a bunch of arse.
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.
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.
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