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ANATOMY OF HELL
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Catherine Breillat explores issues of body, sex, and gender once again in this   intimate and erotic chamber drama. Amira Casar plays an unnamed woman who pays   a handsome stranger (Rocco Siffredi) to watch her "where she's unwatchable".     Breaking all boundaries and shedding all restraint, the two enter a daring     exploration of sexuality at its most naked. "Breillat turns a philosophical    speculum on gender relations to perverse (and perversely elegant) effect" (J.  Hoberman, Village Voice). In French with English subtitles.                Catherine Breillat---France---2003---80 mins.
BRIEF CROSSING
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Catherine Breillat (Romance) explores the nature of human sexuality once   again with this erotic drama detailing a chance encounter between two            strangers. A 16-year-old French boy, Thomas, meets Alice, a recently divorced,   older British woman, on a night ferry and they spend the evening talking,      dancing and moving towards an unconventional romance. In French with English   Catherine Breillat---France---2002---80 mins.
FAT GIRL
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Catherine Breillat offers an unflinching dissection of sibling rivalry and       female adolescent sexuality in this bold coming-of-age drama. Twelve-year-old    Anais (Anais Reboux) is a slightly over-weight girl with the weight of the       world on her shoulders, while her beautiful, fifteen-year-old sister, Elena,   guides through life. Their love/hate relationship is captured perfectly during a summer vacation where Anais tags along with Elena and witnesses the          corruption of her sister's innocence at the hands of an older, Italian college   student. "Few movies have so effectively conveyed the alienation of            adolescence, and the way children can be driven almost mad by their separation from life and love" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune). In French     Catherine Breillat---France---2001---86 mins.
PERFECT LOVE (BREILLAT)
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Sexual provocateur Catherine Breillat (A Real Young Girl, 36            Fillette) presents a dark and disturbing portrait of a love affair that       goes terribly wrong. The relationship between a couple separated by ten years    begins magically but quickly turns to torment and tragedy. "Authentic and      unsettling...[an] emotional see-saw" (Lisa Nesselson, Variety). In       Catherine Breillat---France---1996---110 mins.
REAL YOUNG GIRL (BREILLAT)
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Made in 1975, this first feature from Catherine Breillat (Romance,         Fat Girl) went unreleased for 25 years; considered too explicit for art    film venues and too adventurous for the pornography circuit. Breillat walks a    fine line between realism and voyeurism with this graphic portrayal of a       teenage girl's sexual awakening. While often erotic, the film also explores    uncomfortable aspects of sexuality and includes some unsettling montages. "The film is the same, but public attitudes have advanced," Breillat said. "Now       we'll see if viewers dismiss it as porn, or go beyond the images to the        emotions and reflection they provoke." ADULTS ONLY. In French with English     Catherine Breillat---France---1975/2000---93 mins.
ROMANCE (DIR CUT SUBT)
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Controversial for its explicit sexual content, Catherine Breillat's              Romance is as daring for its ideas as its eroticism. Involved in an        affair that has stalled because her boyfriend refuses to have sex with her, a    woman decides to explore other avenues in a series of intimate adventures. "A  dark and unsparing study of female masochism and a brittle sex comedy of       manners" (Amy Taubin, The Village Voice). This is the unrated version of the film. ADULTS ONLY. In French with English subtitles.                         Catherine Breillat---France---1999---95 mins.
SEX IS COMEDY
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French provocateur Catherine Breillat explores her typical theme of              male-female sexual relations in Sex is Comedy, but does so in a            metafilmic context that differs from her other films. The result is a fresh      and original inquiry that is probably Breillat's most accessible offering to   date. Anne Parillaud plays Breillat's doppelganger, an arthouse director in    the process of making a film about a young virgin and her aggressive suitor    (akin to Breillat's Fat Girl). The director quickly forms an intimate      bond with her lead actor (Gregoire Colin) and the pair spends much of the time flirting and fighting about sex, acting, and cinema. "An insightful glimpse    into the mechanics of filmmaking" (Film Threat). In French with English  Catherine Breillat---France---2004---92 mins.