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‘Romance Doll’: Film Review

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15.07.2020 - 22:11

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Maggie Lee Chief Asia Film CriticImagine a Japanese version of “Pygmalion” in which the sculptor continues to caress slabs of marble even after Galatea has come to life.

That is the unusual premise of “Romance Doll,” a marital drama in which a sex doll maker’s rapt obssession with his new prototype, leads to rejection of his human muse.

Directed by Yuki Tanada, from her own 2009 novel of the same title, the film initially holds promise to become a liberating erotic art film against the objectification of the female body.

However, it ends up glorifying the heroic perfectionism of the (male) artisan and the sacrificial suffering of his wife.Although it’s underlying attitudes about female sexuality might be problematic for female and feminist.

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