HELLO SIMILARITIES
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Catherine Breillat's Anatomie de l'Enfer (Anatomy of Hell) bares some similitudes with Eugene Delacroix's La Barque de Dante. Look at how the image on the movie poster is an echo to the corpses of the damned trying desesperatly to assault the dinky boat of Dante and Virgilio floating on the Styx. As if they too were doomed.
Visually, the poster is also an echo to the Rubenian way of 'color-coding' bodies. Pale for the female and dark for the male. Strong muscular bodies similar to the terribilita of MichelAngelo.
Delacroix was inspired and copied the masters at the Louvre. Breillat does a bit the same. It's not plain stupid carbon-copy, it's something else. I hope. I'm sure.