Anatomy of Hell Critic Reviews
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Compact, ultra-explicit two-character pic about what transpires when a beautiful straight woman hires a handsome gay man to "look" at her is gloriously mannered, proudly pretentious and undeniably compelling. Read the full review
What follows is graphic, but it's too cerebral and too challenging to be dismissed as pornography. Read the full review
Even without the difficult imagery, Breillat's grim observations on men, women, and sexual orientation, are tough to take. Read the full review
Despite all that onscreen turgidness, Anatomy of Hell is itself so much a matter of the mind that it never rises above theory.Read the full review
There are scenes here where Breillat deliberately disgusts us, not because we are disgusted by the natural life functions of women, as she implies, but simply because The Woman does things that would make any reasonable Man, or Woman, for that matter, throw up. Read the full review
Homophobic, sex-phobic, maybe even human-phobic. Read the full review
Despite its copious nudity, it is less likely to incite lust among its viewers than a strong desire for a long hot shower. Read the full review
Anatomy of Hell is more than a lapse; it is a brutal self-parody of a filmmaker who, having stripped down to the nitty-gritty once too often, may finally have nothing left to show. Read the full review
