Critic Reviews

One of the best films of this year...unlike anything you've seen on the big screen.

A landmark -- the first movie to give a convincing, feature-length account of sex from a woman's point of view.

A dark and unsparing study of female masochism and a brittle sex comedy of manners, Romance is unsettled in tone, to say the least.

No other mainstream movie has so openly tackled the subject of female sexual experience.

I did not really enjoy this movie, and yet I recommend it. Why? Because I think it's on to something interesting. Here is a movie about a woman who never stops thinking. That may not be as good for you as it is for her.

Despite many flaws...Romance is unquestionably an important film.

There's never been a movie director like Catherine Breillat, a fearless visionary and one hell of a woman.

The movie is a footnote as well, a minor reference back to the days when people yearned for a cinema that was serious and erotic at the same time.

A singularly cheerless trip, explicit but sterile, racy but dull.

The eroticism is powerful, and the documentary candor and directness of the sex scenes make this well worth seeing.