A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".
- Awards
- 1 win
Diego Rodrigues
- Little boy playing doctor
- (as 'Diogo Rodriques')
Catherine Breillat
- Narrator
- (voice)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe film explicitly states at the beginning that Amira Casar's sex scenes were done with a body double. Indeed, Casar allegedly told her male co-star Rocco Siffredi that she would not be having sex with him for the purposes of the film. Siffredi himself had a porn double for the opening gay fellatio scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Indie Sex: Extremes (2007)
- SoundtracksTimeless Bass
Written by D'Julz Single Studio
Produced by D'Julz Single Studio
(C) 20:20 vision records
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ANATOMY OF HELL is a brooding and vulgar scrutiny of the base nature of Human Sexuality. Catherine Breillat attempts to blend a thoughtfully philosophical film with the shocking details hardcore pornography, and falls far short of the mark. I did not have as much of a problem with the disturbing sexual images, as I did with the absurd dialogue. Nobody talks like this, and it carried the film beyond pretension and into preposterousness. The plot is straightforward, yet odd. A woman visits a gay nightclub, and attempts to slash her wrists in the toilet, however her motive is never revealed. She is rescued by a man who passed her on a stairway in the club, and later she asks the man if she may buy his time for the next several days while she reveals herself to him during her most private moments. What follows is a series of turgid and sophomoric discussions which attempt to elucidate the various differences between Men and Women. Even if these two individuals were more articulate and believable, the director does not show us why these characters are worth our attention. What enduring truths could this gay man possibly have to say about masculinity, and why should we care about the observations of this obviously troubled young woman? ANATOMY OF HELL demonstrates our animal nature as sexual beings in exacting detail, however the opaque reflections of the two central characters ring false, and deaden the overall impact of the work. Many would welcome a cinematic journey in which honest philosophical insight is injected into the very artificial and contrived genre of pornography, but ANATOMY OF HELL is neither honest nor insightful, but only salacious.
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- Also known as
- Anatomie de l'enfer
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $34,506
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,255
- Sep 26, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $345,365
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