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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.
Birthday: Jul 13, 1948. Birthplace: Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, France. Dubbed "the bad girl intellectual of French cinema" by Amy Taubin of the Village Voice, writer-director Catherine...
1 day ago · Premiering at Cannes in 2023, “ Last Summer ” is the first film from veteran French writer-director Catherine Breillat since 2013’s “ Abuse of Weakness .”. That’s the longest gap between movies in her directing career, but what’s clear is that Breillat, who turns 76 next month, remains consumed by questions of love, gender, and ...
1 day ago · 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 top form, at once fierce and precise.Returning to a favored subject—the desires and power dynamics in affairs between adolescents and usually much older adults—Breillat brings in another taboo this time: the messy sexual obsession between a lawyer, Anne (Léa Drucker), and her 17-year ...
1 day ago · Within minutes, Breillat has introduced both her characters and their world with brisk narrative economy and a sly, telegraphing conflation of sex and violence: the bedroom, the couple, the son ...
3 days ago · Breillat’s “ Last Summer ” is much lighter in every way, and all the more revealing as a result; it leverages the same premise into a rich exploration of the inadequate judgment such a ...
Oct 13, 2023 · Ten years after the release of her last feature, Abuse of Weakness (2013), Catherine Breillat returns with another tale of vertiginous desire. Unfolding in an idyllic country home seemingly cut off from reality, Last Summer tracks the affair between a steely attorney, Anne (a formidable Léa Drucker), and her 17-year-old stepson, Théo (Samuel ...
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...
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.
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...
