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.
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... [More]
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Reviews for Anatomy of Hell
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A waste of cinema, and of precious time. Full Review |
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 3/4 |
The ultimate lesson being taught isn’t how homosexuality can be transposed to kinky hetero sex games. Full Review |
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F |
I hate this movie, but only because it hated me first. Full Review |
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0/4 |
Breillat reduces sexuality to the basest coupling of body parts, and Anatomy of Hell reduces film to freak-show voyeurism. Full Review |
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Vagina dialogue this may be, but it seems much more like a bunch of arse. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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 |
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1/5 |
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 |
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2.5/5 |
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 |
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Forget the Anatomy, this is just plain Hell. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians. Full Review |
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1/4 |
A ponderous but very, very explicit exploration of gender roles and fears that frequently seems like a parody of the genre. Full Review |
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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 |
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D |
No one takes the fun out of sex like Catherine Breillat. Full Review |
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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 |
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It offends because it is so empty-headed and seemingly gratuitous in the sludge it offers up. Full Review |
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71/100 |
It might not be a film that can be taken too literally, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be taken seriously. Full Review |
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