Romance X
The Nickel Cinema117-119 Clerkenwell Road, London
Fri 16 Oct · 15:40
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A schoolteacher enters into an emotionally detached relationship with a man who refuses physical intimacy, leading her to pursue a series of increasingly explicit encounters outside the relationship in an attempt to understand her own desires and frustrations. As she moves through different sexual experiences, questions of control, vulnerability, and emotional fulfillment begin to dominate her life. Catherine Breillat approaches the material with a confrontational directness that treats sexuality as both psychological terrain and philosophical inquiry. Rather than building toward conventional eroticism, the film maintains a cool, analytical tone that turns intimacy into a site of emotional exposure, imbalance, and self-examination.
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