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lunabee34 ([personal profile] lunabee34) wrote2009-07-26 11:20 pm

Anatomy of Hell

Besides agreeing with Roger Ebert who says: [it] plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians and nearly changing the title of my journal to a pestilential skin, I am curious about a plot point and Google doth fail me.



Are we to assume that The Man killed The Woman on the first night (which is the only night that he's on the cliff) and the rest of the film is something he imagined? Are we to assume that he killed her at the point in the narrative at which he went back to the house and found it abandoned or are we to assume that her death isn't literal but metaphorical?

I do not think I am deep enough to appreciate this movie for yea verily do I wish I had that hour and twenty minutes back.
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[identity profile] lunabee34.livejournal.com 2009-07-27 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
There's this iconic painting (Gustave Courbet’s 1866 ‘l’Origine du Monde’ (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2356286300_7b9bd7c156_o.jpg) that much of the film pays visual homage to.

I have a hard time understanding French theory and I pretty much agree with everything that Ebert said in his review. I think it's telling that when I googled the film, I only found one positive review. All the others were negative. I had seen an interview with Breillat (the director) as part of a documentary that IFC did on sex and she was really interesting and well-spoken. I think I just picked the wrong one of her movies to watch. LOL

I will have to check that movie out. Thank you for the rec!