Anatomie de l'enfer (2004)

Director:

Catherine Breillat

Writer:

Catherine Breillat (novel)

Release Date:

28 January 2004 (France)

Genre:

Adult | Drama

Plot:

A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".

Plot Keywords:

Gay | Suicide Attempt | Blood | Undressing | Goat

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Amira Casar	...	The woman
Rocco Siffredi	...	The man
Alexandre Belin	...	Blow-job lover 1
Manuel Taglang	...	Blow-job lover 2
Jacques Monge	...	Man in bar
Claudio Carvalho	...	Boy with bird
Carolina Lopes	...	Little girl playing doctor
Diego Rodrigues	...	Little boy playing doctor
João Marques	...	Little boy playing doctor
Bruno Fernandes	...	Little boy playing doctor
Maria Edite Moreira	...	Pharmacist 1
Maria João Santos	...	Pharmacist 2
Pauline Hunt	...	Amira Casar's stand-in
Catherine Breillat	...	Narrator (voice)

Directed by
Catherine Breillat

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Catherine Breillat		novel "Pornocratie"

Produced by
António da Cunha Telles	....	executive producer
Natércia Fonseca	....	assistant producer
Jean-François Lepetit	....	producer

Cinematography by
Giorgos Arvanitis
Guillaume Schiffman

Film Editing by
Pascale Chavance

Casting by
Valente Producoes

Production Design by
Jean-Marie Milon
Pedro Sá Santos

Art Direction by
Pedro Garcia
Paula Szabo

Costume Design by
Valérie Guégan
Betty Martins
Catherine Meillan
Sanine Schlumberger

Makeup Department
Dominique Colladant	....	special makeup effects artist
Ana Ferreira	....	key hair stylist
Ana Lorena	....	key makeup artist
Fabien Tuizat	....	special makeup effects artist

Production Management
Vicente Coentro	....	unit manager
Philippe Delest	....	production manager
Luis Goncalves	....	unit manager
Catherine Leroux	....	production manager
Miguel Stocker	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Rita Benis	....	second assistant director
Michaël Weill	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Fabienne Couvreur	....	head painter

Sound Department
Christophe Bourreau	....	foley artist
Christophe Bourreau	....	sound effects editor
Emmanuel Croset	....	sound re-recording mixer
Steven Ghouti	....	adr mixer
Filipe Gonçalves	....	assistant sound
Sylvain Lasseur	....	sound editor
Bertrand Lenclos	....	assistant sound editor
Jean-Max Morise	....	foley artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Joaquim Amaral	....	key grip
Paulo Jorge Antunes	....	Steadicam operator
Susana Gomes	....	assistant camera
Arnaldo Junior	....	electrician
Miguel Malheiros	....	assistant camera
Jacques Monge	....	Steadicam operator

Casting Department
David Santini	....	extras casting

Editorial Department
Frédéric Barbe	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Fátima Ribeiro	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• CB Films
• Canal+
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
• Flach Film
• Flach Pyramide International

Distributors

• Atlantis Entertainment (2005) (Czechoslovakia) (theatrical)
• Cinema Mondo (2004) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Potential Films (2004) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Tartan (2004) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Atlantis Entertainment (2004) (Czech Republic) (all media)
• Atlantis Entertainment (2004) (Hungary) (all media)
• Atlantis Entertainment (2004) (Slovakia) (all media)
• Irfan Film (2005) (Turkey) (all media)
• Madman Entertainment (2004) (Australia) (DVD)
• Mongrel Media (2004) (Canada) (all media)
• Palisades Tartan (2009) (UK) (all media)
• Palisades Tartan (2004) (USA) (all media)
• Palisades-Tartan Acquisitions (2008) (UK) (DVD)
• Punto Zero (2008) (Italy) (all media)
• Rézo Films
• Sharada Distribuzione
• TLA Releasing (2005-????) (USA) (DVD)
• Tartan Video USA (2005) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Anatomy of Hell (Australia) (International: English title) (festival title) (USA) (literal English title)
Anatomia do Inferno (Brazil) (festival title) [pt]
Cehennemin anatomisi - Romans 2 (Turkey: Turkish title) (video title) [tr]
Himon anatomia (Finland) [fi]
Pornocrazia (Italy) [it]

Runtime:

77 min | Canada:87 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Taiwan:R-18 | South Korea:Limited | Australia:R | Canada:R (Ontario) | Czech Republic:18 | Finland:K-15 | France:-16 | Italy:VM18 | New Zealand:R18 | UK:18 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Ericeira, Portugal

Company:

CB Films

Trivia:

Director Catherine Breillat wrote 'the man' especially for Rocco Siffredi.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Indie Sex: Extremes (2007) (TV)

Form 'Romance' to 'Anatomy of Hell', she is liberated!

One may not 'enjoy' the 'Anatomy of Hell' while seeing it in the cinema. It is a very tense experience and most scenes are surprisingly confronting. Go alone and see it anonymously as it may well be a part of human nature to deny such a deep cut- to-the-bone depict of the 'naked' human relations.

'Romance' is about how men treat women and 'Anatomy of Hell' is about how men 'view' and treat women. However, from 'Romance' to 'Anatomy of Hell', while men stay at same, SHE is liberated! She is no longer longing for the impossible of men recognition and driven to despair as in 'Romance', in 'Anatomy of Hell', she lies there and knows TOO WELL that all the sins in the world are caused by the view of her body (AS IF!).

From the high class sex scandals to the street gang rapes, the essence is the same. The very abstract notions of Catherine Breillat's view on misogyny only can be illustrated via the extreme excessive sex scenes. If the extreme sex scenes are taken out form both the 'Romance' and the 'Anatomy of Hell' (as they both have caused censorship controversial in Australia), would the same points be made? The answer is definitely NO.

'Romance' and 'Anatomy of Hell' are the only two films of Catherine Breillat's I have seen. I definitely will try to see the other films she ever made.