Romance France
1999, 99min.
1999, France, 99 min.
Prod.: Jean-François Lepetit, Script/Dir.: Catherine Breillat, Dir. of Phot.: Giorgos Arvanitis, Compos.: Raphaël Tidas, Prod. Design: Frédérique Belvaux, Sound: Paul Lainé, Edit.: Agnès Guillemot.
Cast: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand, Rocco Siffredi, Reza Habouhossein, Ashley Wanninger, Emma Colberti, Fabien de Jomaron…
Although deeply in love with her boyfriend – and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him – a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy with him. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations, including a developing relation with the school headmaster.
Production Companies
CB Films
Canal+
La Sept Cinéma
Procirep
Arte France Cinéma
Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
Flach Film
| Breillat, Catherine  Catherine Breillat was born July 13, 1948, Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France). At 17 Breillat wrote her first novel L´homme Facile that brought her renown owing to the open reflections on issues of sex in it. Between 1968 and 1975 she published three more novels and a play and also managed to star in a small role in Bernardo Bertolucci’s scandalous Last Tango in Paris.
In 1975 Catherine Breillat appeared as a director, screenwriter and art director for Real Girl – a film based on one of her novels. However, due to financial problems of the producers as well as a controversial response, the film was released only in 2000. Later writing two more scenarios and participating in a film, Breillat once again took up the role of a director in 1979.
The topic and the open scenes of the film received a harsh response of the press, but also proved a big commercial success to it. Simultaneously, Breillat continued writing screenplays (including ones for Federico Fellini and Maurice Pialat).
Catherine Breillat gained wide international renown by the film Romance in 1999 that received acclaim in the press internationally affirming Breillat as one of the outstanding figures of the contemporary French filmmaking.
In 2007 Catherine Breillat was invited to join the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. She was also a member of the jury at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.
Filmography
Junior Size 36 (36 fillette, 1988), Dirty Like an Angel (Sale comme un ange, 1991), À propos de Nice, la suite (segment "Aux Niçois qui mal y pensent",1995), Perfect Love (Parfait amour! 1996), Romance (Romance, 1999), For My Sister (À ma soeur! 2001), Brief Crossing (Brève traverse, 2001), Sex Is Comedy (2002), Anatomy of Hell (Anatomie de l'enfer, 2004), An Old Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse, 2007), Barbe bleue (2008) (in production)
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