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| Directed by | Catherine Breillat |
| Written by | Catherine Breillat |
| Produced by | Jean-François Lepetit |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Yorgos Arvanitis |
| Edited by | Agnès Guillemot |
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| Distributed by | Rézo Films |
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Running time | 99 minutes[1] |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $2.7 million |
| Box office | $3.9 million[2] |
Romance (Romance X) is a 1999 French arthouse film written and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Caroline Ducey, Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stévenin and François Berléand. The film features explicit copulation scenes,[3] especially one showing Ducey's coitus with Siffredi.
- ^ "ROMANCE (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 19 July 1999. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
- ^ "Romance (1999) – JPBox-Office".
- ^ Anne Gillain, "Profile of a Filmmaker: Catherine Breillat" Beyond French Feminisms: debates on women, Politics and Culture in France, 1981 – 2001, edited by Roger Célestin et al. New York: Macmillan (2003): 202. Catherine Breillat's "film Romance had received much praise—and criticism—the previous year for using a porn-film actor and a scene showing a nonsimulated sexual act, including a shot of an erection in the foreground."