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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.
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BLUEBEARD (2009)
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Catherine Breillat's retelling of the classic fairy tale dives into all the period costume thrills involving an aristocratic serial widower and his new child bride.
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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.
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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.
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LAST MISTRESS, THE (IMPORT)
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Catherine Breillat has a reputation for making sexually explicit films about female desire, but the results are always more provocative than tantalizing. The Last Mistress is no different, but it's the first instance of Breillat taking her "New French Extremity" roots and planting them in France's loftiest of film genres: the "Heritage Film." Adapting Jules-Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly's 1851 novel about an experienced courtesan, Breillat casts cinematic bad girl Asia Argento as La Vellini, who has a stormy affair with a younger Parisian nobleman, Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad Ait Aattou, just as pretty as Argento). Their destructive romance is shown in flashback, when the libertine Ryno is forced to confess his carnal sins on the eve of his marriage to a wealthier, safer girl (Roxane Mesquida). If you like period costumes, lots of skin, and extreme emotions, this is your jam. If you thought Argento injected some much-needed flesh and blood into Marie Antoinette the year before, then this is the spinoff. "It's terribly French. It's also gloriously unpredictable" (The New York Times). Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. In French with English subtitles.
Catherine Breillat---France---2007---104 mins.
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NIGHT AFTER NIGHT (TAPAGE NOCTURNE)
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For her second film, Breillat adapts her own novel, an erotic story about a female film director (Dominique Laffin) who cheats on her husband with various men. However, when she sleeps with Bruno, she breaks her own rules by coming back night after night. "...a dark film about...the psychological terrain of feminine shame and desire" (NY Times).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SLEEPING BEAUTY, THE (BREILLAT)
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After Bluebeard, Catherine Breillat brings another oft-filmed fairy tale to the screen in a provocative style all her own. Filmed for French TV, The Sleeping Beauty is a gorgeous, sensual retelling of Charles Perrault's fable, but it takes underlying metaphors of sin and female sexuality and depicts them quite graphically. Not for kids.
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