1. Breillat is militantly in favor of personal and intellectual freedom -- and that aspect of her mission as an artist is laudable. But it's the way she expresses it on film that lends itself to giggles and guffaws.
2. Unless you buy the obnoxious premise that men in general, and gay men in particular, loathe women, you may find yourself thinking, 'Buck up, dear!' and concluding that this is a filmmaker whose desire to shock exceeds her capacity for interesting thought.
3. Breillat, as usual, leaves us gasping.
4. It's an admirably bold film, Siffredi is surprisingly good, and it's filled with images you're not likely to see anywhere else.
5. I may be just one ignorant American who can't appreciate the brilliance of Breillat's French Skinema, but I know pretentious subtitled porn when I see it.
6. No one takes the fun out of sex like Catherine Breillat.
7. Ultimately less reminiscent of similarly themed efforts like Last Tango in Paris than of an explicit health education training film.
8. A ponderous but very, very explicit exploration of gender roles and fears that frequently seems like a parody of the genre.
9. Plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians.
10. Not since Pia Zadora's The Lonely Lady has a gardening tool been so violated.

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Ponderous, pretentious, and -- considering the subject matter -- dull.