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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.
6 days ago · 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 ...
6 days ago · Catherine Breillat, Pascal Bonitzer, Maren Louise Käehne, May el-Toukhy. Stars Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Serena Hu. Rating Not Rated. Running Time
6 days ago · 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.
5 days ago · Anne is inscrutable, as the director Catherine Breillat’s heroines usually are, but there are clues dropped like pearls throughout the movie. Last Summer, a remake of a Danish film, is the 75 ...
6 days ago · The French director Catherine Breillat’s new film, a fiercely antagonistic tale of an incestuous affair, is both a long-delayed return to work and an artistic self-renewal. By Richard Brody ...
6 days ago · New York audiences might be the luckiest cinephiles this summer: French legend Catherine Breillat’s newest gem of a film Last Summer not only opens theatrically this weekend, but they were treated to a retrospective of the director’s work at Film at Lincoln Center. A very rare occasion, unfortunately, for the rest of the world––the reputation of Breillat’s earlier films precede her.
Catherine Breillat is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender trouble and sibling rivalry. Accused of being a "porno auteuriste", Breillat allowed for an unbiased view of sexuality and extended the language of mainstream movies.
Jun 25, 2024 · Nothing in this sick, sad world is simpler or more complicated than sex, a principle that helps to explain why the ever-provocative Catherine Breillat — whose films so often consecrate female...
Jun 26, 2024 · Before its summerlong run through North American theaters, Last Summer will open on Friday at Film at Lincoln Center, where the retrospective Carnal Knowledge: The Films of Catherine Breillat is winding down. Breillat will be in New York to take part in four Q&As, starting with this evening’s sneak preview with Madeline Whittle moderating.