Romance
Carnal Knowledge: The Films of Catherine Breillat
June 21 - 27, 2024
Arguably Breillat’s most controversial film to date at the time of its release and one of her signature achievements, Romance follows a school teacher on a harrowing Sadean journey through a misogynistic world fueled by desire and ruled through violence.
Arguably her most controversial film to date at the time of its release (and that’s really saying something), Romance remains one of Breillat’s signature achievements and is a perversely neat encapsulation of many of her political and aesthetic concerns. School teacher Marie (Caroline Ducey) has grown bored of her all-too-bourgeois relationship with Paul (Sagamore Stévenin); one morning, at a bar, she meets Paolo (adult film actor Rocco Siffredi), with whom she has sex, inaugurating a harrowing Sadean journey from which Marie will learn more than she could have expected both about herself and her place in a misogynistic world fueled by desire and ruled through violence.
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