Don't do it. The reviews you read when Romance came out said as much, and your friends have warned you not to waste your time and money--and yet you want an "explicit" arty sex film directed by a woman to be good, so you're thinking you'll probably see it anyway. Don't do it. Romance is utterly joyless and is as thoroughly jouissance-free as only the worst kind of french film can be, offering up its clinical nudity and strangely starched transgressions without style, story, or even an engaging performance.