Romance
As part of this summer’s stellar season, the TIFF Cinematheque presents their first-ever retrospective of the work of Catherine Breillat. The program is called Catherine Breillat’s Anatomies of Desire, and the title couldn’t be more apt. Polarizing and always controversial, Breillat’s films have consistently launched unforgiving, frank, and at times quite disturbing inquiries into female sexuality and the possibilities of representing sex in the cinema (where is that fine line between art and porn, anyway? Does it even matter?)...
Must Love Death is a genuinely crazy mish-mash of romance and torture/survival horror. Actually a German student-film, the movie works on both its romance and its torture levels quite well, but it’s difficult for the viewer to determine if the unease they feel about the film is coming from the fact that these two genres have rarely – if ever – been seen together, or if the film simply doesn’t work when the sum of its parts is collected....
