Beautiful Women Get Taken By Ugly Men

I re-watched the movie Romance last night and once again, was just totally floored by it. It had been several years since I had originally seen it and I remember just being so amazed at how accurate and well-written it was in relating to women's sexuality. Incidentally, the film was originally recommended to me by a client who I saw jut a few times, but he seemed to recognize that I would completely relate to this film. I did, and I thank him for that. 

The film also turned me on to director Catherine Breillat, a French filmmaker whose films usually deal with the sexuality of young women in such an explicit and accurate way that they could never be made in the United States. She seems to understand the submissive tendencies that a lot of women have when it comes to sex, but also the tendencies to want to become a whore, to be used for sexual pleasure without the binding fallacies of a relationship. After watching Romance for the first time, I couldn't believe how many of my secret fantasies were played out in this movie, fantasies that I thought only I had. I mean, I had never seen a film that I could relate to on such a personal level as this one.

If you have never seen one of Breillat's films, I advise you to check one out...Romance, Fat Girl, Anatomy of Hell, A Very Young Girl, 36 Fillete. Just amazing, incredible works of art that truthfully expose the sexuality of women that no American filmmaker could ever try to do.