Who Came Before Gaspar Noé? Ten Auteur-Porn Milestones of the 21st Century
Anatomy of Hell (2004)
Noé’s New French Extremity fellow traveler Catherine Breillat cast Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi in 1999’s Romance and also in this sort-of sequel, not generally regarded as one of the critically respected filmmaker’s more auspicious outings. Amira Casar’s Woman pays Siffredi’s gay Man for a few days’ company on an isolated estate. Writing in LA Weekly, Ella Taylor dressed the film down, saying that it “offers one of the most hateful and mechanical representations of sexuality I’ve ever seen.”