Catherine Breillat has never exactly been a subtle filmmaker, or a particularly easy one to grapple with. Her films are often bluntly provoc...
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Sex Is Comedy
In Sex Is Comedy, Catherine Breillat lays bare the essence of her cinema in an especially direct way, making a metafictional, quasi-autobiog...
Romance
"Love between men and women is not possible." So says Marie (Caroline Ducey) towards the end of Catherine Breillat's ironicall...
The Sleeping Beauty
Catherine Breillat understands very well the appeal and the power of fairy tales and children's stories, their ability to reflect and cr...
Bluebeard (2009)
Catherine Breillat's films have often been concerned with childhood and innocence, especially the loss of girlish innocence, often with ...