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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.
3 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 ...
3 days ago · 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 ...
2 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 ...
3 days ago · Anne (a fantastic Léa Drucker) gradually discovers attraction and love anew with Théo (Samuel Kircher, cherubic and cruel at once, like all Breillat-penned men) and has to keep the secret from her husband Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin). Talking to Catherine Breillat a year since its Cannes debut, ahead of the film’s US release, allowed for some ...
2 days ago · Léa Drucker and Samuel Kircher in the movie “Last Summer,” directed by Catherine Breillat. There’s no defending what Anne, a successful lawyer and mother, does when she begins an affair ...
May 27, 2023 · Director, screenwriter: Catherine Breillat. 1 hour 44 minutes. Premiering in competition at Cannes, Last Summer feels like the salacious French cousin to Todd Haynes’ May December, which played ...
May 25, 2023 · Screenplay: Catherine Breillat, with the collaboration of Pascal Bonitzer, based on the film ”Queen of Hearts” written by Maren Louise Kaëhne and May El-Toukhy, directed by May El-Thoukhy ...
Feb 10, 2022 · Long out of distribution, Catherine Breillat’s 1999 film returns, newly restored, as the centerpiece of a retrospective on the filmmaker at the IFC Center.
Q&A with Catherine Breillat on June 26. In what is still considered by many to be Breillat’s magnum opus, an overweight 12-year-old watches on as an Italian law student courts her beautiful older sister while they vacation in a seaside town, setting into motion a series of abject and disturbing events.