From her controversial 1976 directorial debut “A Real Young Girl” to even more confrontational later works like “Romance” (1999) and “Anatomy of Hell” (2004), French auteur Catherine Breillat has long ...
The French filmmaker Catherine Breillat has been exploring relationships between girls and older men since the 1970s. Her latest, “Last Summer,” flips the script. By Carlos Aguilar When the French ...
There’s no defending what Anne, a successful lawyer and mother, does when she begins an affair with her 17-year-old stepson, Théo, in the incandescent French drama “Last Summer.” And the director, ...
Few directors get as deeply under the skin as Catherine Breillat, a longtime provocateur who tests the limits of what the world thinks women should do and say and be. By Manohla Dargis When you ...
The 75-year-old French auteur Catherine Breillat is a perennial provocateur. Even before she embarked on her directorial career, she worked in the shadow of cinematic scandal: Her first onscreen role ...
The "Fat Girl" director is back at the top of her game with this surprisingly chaste incest drama about a middle-aged woman struggling to make sense of her own desire. Nothing in this sick, sad world ...
Exclusive: Léa Drucker leads Breillat's first film in a decade that focuses on a love triangle between a teen, his dad, and step-mother. Writer/director Breillat returns to filmmaking after more than ...
It’s been a long decade’s wait since Catherine Breillat’s last feature, the semi-autobiographical Abuse of Weakness with Isabelle Huppert, but Last Summer shows the uncompromising French filmmaker in ...
Outside of porn movies, no film has ever explored sex more explicitly than Catherine Breillat's "Romance." This alone will make it a subject of controversy--one erect penis on a U.S. screen is more ...
Filmmaker Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl) has long made sex and female desire her central subjects, variously examining sexual awakening, sexual taboos, and transgressive habits in her work. Breillat’s ...
Kristen Stewart curated a list of her favorite French films and discussed why they inspired her as an artist during a masterclass in Deauville.
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