Derek Wilson in a South African newspaper used words like sexually explicit, curiosity value, a randy woman, hardly titillating (no pun intended), incomprehensible silly ending, men she portrays are pathetic. All true, I would add that Paul was not just pathetic, he was a prime idiot, thus the movie obviously does not target me because I am not! To me, Romance is not an art movie, it's too weak to be that, and fails as a porn movie because Caroline Ducey is simply not sexy enough. If the sex scenes were real and not acted, she is not good in bed! She was reasonable only in the "rape" scene (rape??). Thus Breillat's only achievement is to get a porn movie into mainstream cinemas. Not enough!
