The quote on the movie poster to the right raves “Possibly the sexiest movie ever made!” I think that I have a completely contrasting view of sexy to the person who said that. In Romance, Marie and Paul have the definition of a broken relationship in this film, and I wasn’t given any reason to understand why either of them can’t just move on and find someone that they are at least interested in having a normal conversation with. They do eat dinner, though, Marie convinced that Paul ‘only loves her when there is a dinner table between them,’ and then they go home where Marie attempts to have some sort of sexual activity with Paul, but he won’t have it, and pushes Marie away and rolls over to sleep. LIke other Breillat films, I’m not sure what she wants the viewer to get out of her films, not in the sense that they are ambiguous and have many possible interpretations, but in that she seems to throw everything she knows about sexuality into her film, and then tries to tie it all up with a big final scene, usually violent. Her films are easy to watch, though. Most of them are filled with anecdotes about relationships and sex, and then a sex scene, and then repeat, but more extreme the next time. The ideas about relationships are interesting, some accurate, and some seem like she is reaching. But I always have a feeling that I am in a fantasy world when I am watching one of Breillat’s films. Her characters live and breathe their sexuality, and aren’t interested in anything else. It is all they speak about and contemplate. Marie is a teacher currently teaching French grammar, even though she is dyslexic? Oh well, her job is good for something though, as she gets intense bondage sessions about of the principal. I haven’t seen a film by Breillat that I have liked yet, and I don’t anticipate that happening.