Name: Romance
Director: Catherine Breillat
Released: 1999

Synopsis

Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.

Cinema Atlas Connection

Her 1999 film Romance was a particularly important one for Scafaria: 'The women in her films are so deeply complex and messy and sexual and often, like, unlikable on the surface, but still very relatable and empathetic. It’s what I try to do, I think, in all of my films: to find the empathy in the unlikable.'

The women in her films are so deeply complex and messy and sexual and often, like, unlikable on the surface, but still very relatable and empathetic. It's what I try to do, I think, in all of my films: to find the empathy in the unlikable.

— Lorene Scafaria · Rolling Stone: How Lorene Scafaria Became One of Hollywood’s Most In-Demand Directors

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