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I haven't bothered to review a film for a while as it's essentially a pointless task, but I am forced to action (as a person of action might say).

WHY!?!?!? do people have a problem with sex in films. There are rumours that this film is being appealed against in Australia with the intention to ban it!! I do not find breasts offensive, not pubic hair. I certainly don't find a penis offensive, or I would be forced to slice mine off... (I'm quietly admiring of Rocco's, wish mine looked more like his)... so I don't have a problem with those things being portrayed in Anatomie de L'Enfer. There are a few challenging images in the film, but what is wrong with being challenged. Indeed, how could you go into this film and be shocked, the poster let's on what you are in store for, the films rating lets you know!

Why do adults have a problem with two adult characters discussing sex in a film? I thank Einstein that we have films other than the 'lets switch off our brains' U.S films (which there is a time and place for) to sometimes get our teeth into.

Lets cherish Catherine Breillat and look forward to her next production; I for one would love to meet her.

Cheers.

I was never so bored in my life as I was in this 'film'. I had sworn off Hollywood made horror films for the past few years as they never delivered the goods, were not frightening, and ARE ALWAYS DERIVATIVE. My fiends convinced me to go, "this will be different" and "I've read some great things about it". I was actually BORED, (not quite as bored as in that piece of crap 'Wrong Turn'- I think it was called, but almost that bored).

Anyway, the main reason I am writing this is that it is of concern how Hollywood is re-writing history. I was talking to some kids at uni who saw this abortion of a movie and took what was in it for fact. I have noticed this happening a lot lately (even highbrow films like 'Elizabeth' with Cate Blanchet are passed off as factual when they play fast and loose with the facts too). These kids think, as the movie states at the beginning, a bunch of kids were massacred by a chainsaw wielding maniac in Texas in 1974. I told them Ed Gein did his deed in the fifties, in Wisconsin, and he went about it in a much different way. The kids said, no, I'm wrong.. why would they change the facts. I said to make a (supposedly) better film. They walked away thinking I was wrong. I've read books on Ed Gein, they've seen a Hollywood film... this is the future.

P.S I did like the recent remake of Dawn Of The Dead, so I'm not a purist.

Nobuhiro Suwa is part of the current so called Japanese new wave; he is something of a new kid on the block with only two other films under his belt preceding this film. Pretty bloody good, is a good way to describe this film. The director, Suwa, plays a director making a remake of Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima mon amore", a seminal film of the French new wave. As with the original film, this film deals with memory, non-memory and contemporary life as people try to express the inexpressible. Recommended, but not if you want to be spoon fed.