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Anatomy of Hell
Directed by
Catherine Breillat
Not Rated
2004
77m
Drama
4.5
26%
37%
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A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".
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Where to Watch Anatomy of Hell
Criterion Channel
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Cast of Anatomy of Hell
Amira Casar
The Woman
Rocco Siffredi
The Man
Alexandre Belin
Blowjob Lover 1
Manuel Taglang
Blowjob Lover 2
Jacques Monge
Man in Bar
Claudio Carvalho
Boy with the Bird
Carolina Lopes
Little Girl
Diego Rodrigues
Boy Playing Doctor
João Marques
Boy Playing Doctor
Bruno Fernandes
Boy Playing Doctor
Maria Edite Moreira
Pharmacist 1
Maria João Santos
Pharmacist 2
Catherine Breillat
Narrator (voice) / Director / Writer
Jean-François Lepetit
Producer
Anatomy of Hell Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Nathan Lee
Her latest, Anatomy of Hell, doesn't so much straddle the fine line between art and porn as balance, bleeding, on the knife's edge between trenchant and pretentious.
Cinema Writer
Jay Antani
A waste of cinema, and of precious time.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
The ultimate lesson being taught isn't how homosexuality can be transposed to kinky hetero sex games.
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
I hate this movie, but only because it hated me first.
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
Breillat reduces sexuality to the basest coupling of body parts, and Anatomy of Hell reduces film to freak-show voyeurism.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians.
Chicago Tribune
Achy Obejas
A ponderous but very, very explicit exploration of gender roles and fears that frequently seems like a parody of the genre.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Ultimately less reminiscent of similarly themed efforts like Last Tango in Paris than of an explicit health education training film.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
No one takes the fun out of sex like Catherine Breillat.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
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.
Newsday
John Anderson
Breillat, as usual, leaves us gasping.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Ranks high on the squirm meter. But, unlike in most of [Breillat's] earlier work, there's no emotional payoff.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
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.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Once again, [Breillat] gives us a man and a woman engaged in a bruising slugfest hinged to sexual difference.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
In her latest feature, sexual provocatrix Catherine Breillat turns a philosophical speculum on gender relations to perverse (and perversely elegant) effect.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
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.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
In her clinical yet stately manner Breillat is largely -- though not wholly -- successful.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Unless 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.
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
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.
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