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Released
1999 · FILM

Romance

A disillusioned schoolteacher embarks on a provocative journey through a series of intense and dangerous relationships, confronting her desires and the limits of intimacy.

Love is desolate. Romance is temporary. Sex is forever.

Runtime
99 min
Language
FR
DramaRomance

Synopsis

A young schoolteacher, frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Agnes GuillemotShot by Giorgos ArvanitisScored by Raphael TidasDesigned by Frederique Belvaux

Box Office

1999 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$3.9M

Budget$2.7M
Worldwide gross$3.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $1.6M 41% of worldwide · International: $2.3M (59%)

Opening weekend: $45K 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 3 theaters

Also known as

  • Romance Xde
  • Romance XXXde

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