I liked it. I felt bad for the leading lady. She made me feel sad during the entire movie, especially when she said she didn't care who "stuffed her c**t", but she "couldn't kiss someone I don't love" after she had sex with Rocco. I thought her acting throughout the movie was really good.
shareI just finished watching this movie. I thought it was terrible. The acting may have been alright, but the actual plot was disgusting. One of the reviews on the page for this movie called it erotica for women, but I would certainly hope it really isn't. I could never imagine, as a guy, degrading a woman like many of the men in the movie, nor putting myself in such a position to be degraded. I couldn't feel bad or sorry for her at all, considering she put herself in every situation she was in, including the one with her boyfriend paul. I guess the movie could have been a drawn out portrayal of the scene with the split room, where she was being emotionlessly screwed on one side of the wall, and experiencing the emotional part of a relationship with paul next to her on the other. If that's your thing, more power to ya, but in my opinion, the line "A *beep* has to be separate from a face" is as false a statement as saying the sun lights up the night sky. A woman is beautiful in her comleteness, separating the two entities is a blasphemy as far as i'm concerned
shareI agree that there's nothing erotic about the movie at all.
She's so detached from sex and I really did feel sad for her at times. As a woman, I could relate to her at times, especially during the split wall screen, where she was with someone she cared about but cared nothing for the ones having sex with her.
There's nothing wrong with pornography. It's a healthy expression of a natural urge.
Her actions, especially toward the end were bordering on misogyny. It seems women can't be sexual unless they are evil or degraded. It was right up their with Story of O and Last Tango in Paris (and these movies were made in the 70s). I seen porn far better than this. Even porn where women became sexually empowered with degrading themselves or humilating themselves or any of that pseudo-philosophical crap. What's worst is this film is directed and written by a woman. That schoolteacher was lucky she didn't end up like Diane Keaton in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar"
shareWhen I first checked out this Board Room, and read the blurb where it says "The director explores female psychology in a way that men can understand", obviously I don't agree with that one bloody bit. I would have to agree with Ryan from Germany when he said that he wasn't sorry for the lead actress at all, because she put herself in those situations, except where her boyfriend started getting pissed all the time she was pregnant with seemingly his child (since we're made to believe that the condoms worked when she having sex with Paolo).
And the line "Who can love a face when a *beep* tags along?" and "Love can never really happen between men and women"- Where the hell did that come from and who the hell does Catherine Breillat think she is? If that's what women actually think about men who are in truly loving heterosexual relationships that include sex, then (no offence AND offence at the same time, if you get my meaning) THOSE women are absolute idiots!!! Sorry, but it's true. It is proven wrong in so many situations in real-life.
Oh, and did you all see the idiotic move Catherine did in the movie? The part where after most of the movie, her boyfriend finally made love with her. During the movie, we're made to believe that no-one can love a face when a *beep* tags along, aren't we?! Well it sure as hell seemed to me that he loved her. So which side of "the wall in the brothel" was the boyfriend supposed to be put on now, since he has sex with her?
Is there a feminine version of a misogynist?! Because that's what she (Catherine) comes off as. Now, at least, it's proven that a woman can never understand the male psyche and a man can never understand the female psyche if their lives depended on it. So a message to any prospective sex psychologists, understand your own sex and, if needed, ONLY work with a psychologist of the opposite sex- don't even think about trying to understand the other sex, you will only fail dismally. And if you think you do/have- you're always wrong, you haven't even gotten one step forward. Get used to it.
Far too much analytical *beep* (which isn't at all true)- nowhere near representing real-life relationships, sexual, non-sexual or loving (which including sex).
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I think its funny how some women try to mask debauchery by explaining it as something like 'freedom from masculine power and cruelty.' If you're a slut, you're a slut. No bones about it. And if you can't find satsifaction/fulfilment without sleeping around, there are serious deficiencies in other aspects of your life.
Same goes for men, by the way.