Not since Pia Zadora’s The Lonely Lady has a gardening tool been so violated.
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10/15/04
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
It's an admirably bold film, Siffredi is surprisingly good, and it's filled with images you're not likely to see anywhere else.
10/15/04
Breillat, as usual, leaves us gasping.
10/15/04
Top CriticRanks high on the squirm meter. But, unlike in most of [Breillat's] earlier work, there's no emotional payoff.
10/15/04
The good news: Real-life porn star Siffredi turns out to be a terrific actor. Who knew? The bad news: The scene with the garden implement. The scene with the red cocktail. The scene with … I can't go on.
10/15/04
Top CriticOnce again, [Breillat] gives us a man and a woman engaged in a bruising slugfest hinged to sexual difference.
10/14/04
Breillat is a smart, serious observer of sexuality's often disruptive role in human life, but this existential drama is sadly pretentious.
10/14/04
a font of faux profundity
10/13/04
In her latest feature, sexual provocatrix Catherine Breillat turns a philosophical speculum on gender relations to perverse (and perversely elegant) effect.
10/12/04
Top CriticPretentious pornographic stuff and nonsense.
10/11/04
Issues of sexual commitment, fidelity and self-worth are graphically explored with the torpid detachment of a psych major’s filmic send-up of a Calvin Klein commercial...
10/05/04
A mere parade of shock images meant to free us from our bourgeois illusions -- and since narrative engagement appears to be one of those sins, it's impossible to find a foothold.
10/01/04
In her clinical yet stately manner Breillat is largely -- though not wholly -- successful.
09/24/04
Top CriticUnless you buy the obnoxious premise that men in general, and gay men in particular, loathe women, you may find yourself thinking, 'Buck up, dear!' and concluding that this is a filmmaker whose desire to shock exceeds her capacity for interesting thought.
09/22/04
Breillat is militantly in favor of personal and intellectual freedom -- and that aspect of her mission as an artist is laudable. But it's the way she expresses it on film that lends itself to giggles and guffaws.
09/21/04
Deliberately shocking, yawningly plodding and almost mind-bogglingly pretentious -- and its message is laid on with a trowel: Men are idiots.
09/19/04
A fascinating mood piece from a filmmaker who painstakingly explores the sometimes ugly lives of women -- without flinching.
09/18/04
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09/12/04
I may be just one ignorant American who can't appreciate the brilliance of Breillat's French Skinema, but I know pretentious subtitled porn when I see it.
04/20/04
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