Anatomy of Hell Movie Review 2004

French pretentiousness at its most full-blown. An unnamed straight woman (Casar)--bored, stupid, mentally unbalanced or all three--slits her wrists in a gay disco and is attended to by a nameless gay man (Italian porn stud Siffredi) whom she then propositions. She'll pay him to accompany her to her creepy isolated house and look at her naked. This will help her confront her problems with intimacy or sexuality or something. Unless you're as masochistic as the characters, you won't care. Oh, and Casar has a body double for the more, ummm, close-up views but that's all Siffredi all the time. Adapted from Breillat's novel "Pornocratie"; French with subtitles.

Distribution

TLA Releasing, 234 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19106, Phone: (215)733-0608, Toll-free: 800-333-8521, Fax: (215)733-0637, Email: sales@tlavideo.com, URL: http://www.tlareleasing.com

Available on DVD
Running time 87 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sex & Sexuality, Gays, Women, France

Screenplay

Catherine Breillat

Cast

Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Catherine Breillat

Cinematography

Yorgos Arvanitis, Guillaume Schiffman, Miguel Malherios, Pedro da Santos

Director

Catherine Breillat

Music

D'juiz

Other

Carlos Pinto, Filipe Goncalves, Emmanuel Croset, Pascale Chavance, Frederic Barbe, Pedro da Santos, Jean-Marie Milon, Paula Szabo, Pedro Garcia, Valerie Guegan, Betty Martins, Catherine Meillan, Sanine Schlumberger