Catherine Breillat retro
Overview of films
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Romance
Breillat shows that a woman’s desires can also be ambivalent. Controversial film with real sex scenes.
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Tapage Nocturne
An unpolished film with a dreamy beauty, Breillat again working from her own story of a young woman who falls prey to an all-consuming desire, analyse
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Parfait amour
Breillat’s most commercial and romantic film, but nevertheless a searing exploration of love and hate, love and death. An older, attractive bourgeois
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Une vraie jeune fille
Breillat’s precocious and risk-taking début, typically frank and direct. In a sensual, intense first-person style she describes how a young girl disco
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Aux Niçois qui mal y pensent
Inspired by Vigo’s classic A propos de Nice, Breillat’s camera sees what it is not allowed to see, a study in intolerance.
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36 Fillette
A powerful and brilliantly acted film in which a young girl is obsessed with losing her virginity. On holiday, she both resists and loves a rather rid
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Sale comme un ange
Breillat turns the genre of traditional French ‘policier’ on its head, exploring the truth about physical passion and the brutal power of desire throu