![Romance (Unrated) (Sub) [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A14D3B1BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Amazon.co.uk Review
Briefly notorious around the time of its release for being just about the most sexually explicit art-house film to be passed uncut by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), Romance is strong stuff, as forebodingly enigmatic as it is confrontational. Schoolteacher Marie (Caroline Ducey) lives with her boyfriend Paul (Sagamore Stévenin), a vapid male model. When he refuses to have sex with her anymore she seeks out loveless couplings with, among other (more…)
Marcus Reese, Duke of Essex, has spent most of his life pulling his twin brother out of trouble. An occasional thank you would suffice; instead, his resentful sibling forges his name to a marriage license and presents him with an unwanted wife. She’s a vicar’s window with a mind of her own who may be the first person in Marcus’s well-ordered life to make him feel…completely out of control. Hannah can’t help but curse her own idiocy. Dire straits have led her to the altar with (more…)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Briefly notorious around the time of its release for being just about the most sexually explicit art-house film to be passed uncut by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), Romance is strong stuff, as forebodingly enigmatic as it is confrontational. Schoolteacher Marie (Caroline Ducey) lives with her boyfriend Paul (Sagamore Stévenin), a vapid male model. When he refuses to have sex with her anymore she seeks out loveless couplings with, among others, an Italian widower (Rocco Siffredi, a porn star in real life) and her headmaster (François Berléand), who introduces her to bondage. Marie’s abject, monotonous voiceover tartly undercuts any potential titillation the images might offer (although (more…)
After a wayward youth, David Reece, the youngest scion in a noble family, has been called one of the most scandalous rogues of the ton. What he wants to be called is trustworthy and a true gentleman. To prove he has reformed he’s agreed to watch over his absent brother’s estate and signet ring. All is going swimmingly until highwaymen waylay his coach and steal that precious ring…Street orphan Vivian Beecham has grown up a pickpocket, and a very pretty one indeed. Now she and her brother have reluctantly graduated to highway robbery. And handsome David Reece has become their victim – until he tracks her down and makes her his prisoner. Locked in a spare bedroom, Vivian vows to hate her captor. Instead she becomes a former (more…)
