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Over-the-top, and Sexually disturbing!
Anatomy Of Hell is a very twisted and disturbing sexual "thriller" that is specifically suitable for alternative film lovers, and it can be rather overwhelming for the mainstream viewers. The last movie that is similar to this film that I had seen was Irreversible(Monica Belluci), which was more engrossing and distasteful than Anatomy of Hell. In this conversational erotic film, the two leads explore many issues revolving body parts, sexual desires and politics. Don't expect the sex and nudity to be stimulating, because it's rather shocking and the sexual activities are hardcore, not similated. <
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>It's quite a surprise to see that Rocco Siffredi(legendary straight porn star) could pull of Frenching kissing a guy in a gay bar in the opening scene. He was cruised by Amira Casar and when he saw her cutting her wrist in the bathroom, he took her to the doctor. Then they went for a walk together, and later she orally served him on the street. She persuaded him to go home with her and would pay him a big chunk of cash if he would stay and watch her where she's unwatchable. He was curious and agreed with the deal. <
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>In the following four days, they talk about sex and she allowed him to "scrutinize" her body while she was sleeping. He reluctantly indulged himself to play around with her body parts. She gets penetrated by him with fingers and his (...) and the handle of a gardening tool..... <
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>She seemed to enjoy the domination and humilation on him. He breaks down into massive tears after having the first sexual act, because he was so revolted. More shockingly of all, is the scene when he made out with her while she was having her period. It was visually disturbing to watch his blood soaked (...) and his reaction to what he had done. Even more shocking was when she puts her blood-soaked tampon into a glass of water, and they both drank half of it! <
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>What really bothered me was the unsafe sexual intercourse and the drinking of the "period water". I don't know how the director could film such scenes. It's so hardcore and engrossing. I am surprised that Rocco Siffredi is quite good at delivering long dialogues and he excelled in the emotional scenes as well as the sex scenes.

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"I exited the myth."
In the Catherine Breillat film "Anatomy of Hell" a nameless man (Rocco Siffredi) and a woman (Amira Casar) meet in a club when he discovers that she has slashed one of her wrists in the bathroom. He takes her off for medical attention, and then the woman offers the man a deal. The deal is this: she tells him that she'll pay if he watches her when she's "unwatchable." He agrees and for the next four nights he goes to the woman's remote, cliff top home and watches her in the bedroom. <
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>Breillat is known for controversial envelope-pushing films focusing on women. "Anatomy of Hell" is the most controversial of her films to-date. So before you rent it, before you buy it, be warned ... you are going to see something that looks amazingly like an adult film in its no-holds barred approach to sexuality. Siffredi, by the way, is a former Italian adult film star with an impressive number of titles such as "Captain Organ" under his belt. <
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>The man and the woman in the film are the fleshy embodiments of attitudes towards the other sex. He, for example, sees the woman sprawled out on the bed naked, and comments that a woman's "fragility" arouses either "homage or brutality" in the male. Her comments include the observation that men want "to lock up" women, and that men like to wrap veils around women because they "anticipate shrouds." Both of the characters approach their odd relationship with extreme views about the other sex. He's a misogynist, and her opinion of men gravitates around the idea that men see women as possessions--possessions with rather messy once-a-month problems. Her self-mutilation hints that she has problems with self-worth, but she seems to enjoy the man's distaste towards her more than anything. She wallows in his disgust, and for the next four nights, this unhappy pair proceeds to bring out the worst in each other. <
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>On one level, the man and the woman could represent a couple who meet and arrange a strange bargain. But on another level, these characters represent attitudes--and they're not supposed to be 'real' people. With fixed ideas about the other sex, they approach each other and engage in a strange and ultimately unsatisfying relationship filled with dislike and a bizarre exploitive need to denigrate and then possess the other person. They are thrown together in a hell they create for themselves. I have a particular fondness for French films in which moral dilemmas occur and then the characters proceed to work through the situation (the films of Eric Rohmer, for example). In "Anatomy of Hell", the fact that the man and the woman are symbolic creates a much more elusive film--intriguing but vague, and faintly disturbing. While I did enjoy the philosophical aspects of the film immensely, I did not enjoy the film's obsession with certain body fluids, or some rather startling close-up scenes. These sections of the film do not appear to be added for shock effect, for they genuinely add to the plot. Nonetheless, the scenes are rather grotesque and hardly pleasant On another note, while it may seem peculiar to mention one scene of animal cruelty (amidst all the extreme bedroom action), it should be mentioned to all animal lovers that this scene exists in the film. <
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>The DVD includes a number of extra features--an interview with director, Catherine Breillat, the theatrical trailer, and a photo gallery. The film is in French with English subtitles--displacedhuman

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You need to get out some more..see review after this one
My response to this dvd and the PR guy review: <
>While watching this I thought, this is... <
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>Frenchy director Breillat's "Hell" is simply another experimental flop. She continues to work with and direct actors that are reminiscent of automotons, or zombies at best. Lack of emotion, convinction and believability runs rampant throughout more half of this film. Steer clear and enjoy something else instead. I'm no prude, but this was a waste of time and money. Borrow it from someone before you rent or buy it. <
>You'll still get upset at your rental store or friend for allowing you to see it without a warning. <
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>"Come" to think of it....maybe this is what hell is like for women...they only get to have sex with gay dudes (where's that thing been?), and as for men, they only get to watch it all while....uh...well, you know.