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Catherine Breillat (French:; born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School. In the film business for over 40 years, Breillat chooses to normalize previously taboo subjects in cinema.
Jun 27, 2024 · The controversial French filmmaker’s Last Summer depicts a steamy affair between a middle-aged woman and her husband’s 17-year-old son from a previous marriage. She explains why she’s not a provocateur—and why she doesn’t need an intimacy coordinator.
Jul 19, 2024 · What Women Want, per Catherine Breillat. Lori Marso reviews Catherine Breillat’s film “Last Summer” in the context of the director’s body of work, as well as alongside the recent Miranda ...
Feb 10, 2022 · The uncompromising filmmaker Catherine Breillat 's sensational 1999 film, "Romance" has recently been restored in a new 4K HD version. The film is being showcased in a retrospective of...
Jun 28, 2024 · Catherine Breillat candidly discusses image-making and intimacy, scandal and subversion, as well as denial and desire.
Jan 19, 2024 · But Catherine Breillat, the provocateuse, the epitome of New French Extremity, the whatever-the-edgy-descriptor-is-today, has made a film where love is possible. A remake of May el-Toukhy’s 2019 Danish film Queen of Hearts, Last Summer is a universe of its own.
Jun 29, 2024 · 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...
Feb 10, 2022 · Breillat, the self-proclaimed “pariah of French cinema,” has said she designed her film as a “war machine against censorship” — although, as it was inspired by a bold speech on...
Apr 21, 2020 · Catherine Breillat’s erotic arthouse dramas offer no easy titillation or consolatory escapism. Their take on sexual politics is philosophical and coldly analytical. Their casual brutalities mire us in a universe of random danger.
Oct 7, 2023 · The French provocateur is in London to present her new film, Last Summer L’été dernier, 2023), a story about a woman who enters into an affair with her teenage stepson. It’s a remake of...
