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Catherine Breillat

Catherine BREILLAT (1948, France) is an actress, novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker based in Paris. She is also a professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School. In 1967, she graduated in acting from Yves Furet’s Studio d’Entraînement de l’Acteur in Paris together with her sister, actress Marie-Hélène Breillat. At the age of 19, she wrote her first novel Lhomme facile in 1968. She made her first film Une vraie jeune fille in 1976, which was re-released after the success of Romance (1999). She became famous for her works that revolve around sexuality, gender troubles, and sibling rivalry. In 1999, IFFR dedicated a retrospective to her work. Her films have been screened at various film festivals internationally, including Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival.

Filmography

(selection) Une vraie jeune fille/A Real Young Girl (1976), Tapage nocturne/Nocturnal Uproar (1981), 36 fillette (1987), Sale comme une ange/Dirty Like An Angel (1991), À propos de Nice, la suite (1995, doc, segment Aux Niçois qui mal y pensent), Parfait amour/Perfect Love (1996), Romance (1999), A ma soeur!/Fat Girl (2001), Brève traversée/Brief Crossing (2001), Sex is Comedy (2002), Anatomie de l’enfer/Anatomy of Hell (2004), Un vieille maîtresse/The Last Mistress (2007), Barbe Bleue/Bluebeard (2009), La belle endormie/The Sleeping Beauty (2010, TV), Abuse of Weakness (2013)

More info: Wikipedia, Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat at IFFR