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Catherine Breillat (French:; born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School. In the film business for over 40 years, Breillat chooses to normalize previously taboo subjects in cinema.
4 days ago · Premiering at Cannes in 2023, “ Last Summer ” is the first film from veteran French writer-director Catherine Breillat since 2013’s “ Abuse of Weakness .”. That’s the longest gap between movies in her directing career, but what’s clear is that Breillat, who turns 76 next month, remains consumed by questions of love, gender, and ...
3 days ago · The same holds, even more strongly, for Catherine Breillat’s new film, “Last Summer,” regarding the incestuous relationship that it depicts. The central character, Anne (Léa Drucker), is a ...
2 days ago · The French filmmaker Catherine Breillat has been exploring relationships between girls and older men since the 1970s. Her latest, “Last Summer,” flips the script. By Carlos Aguilar When the ...
3 days ago · Filmmaker Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl) has long made sex and female desire her central subjects, variously examining sexual awakening, sexual taboos, and transgressive habits in her work.Breillat ...
2 days ago · Léa Drucker and Samuel Kircher in the movie “Last Summer,” directed by Catherine Breillat. There’s no defending what Anne, a successful lawyer and mother, does when she begins an affair ...
3 days ago · Anne (a fantastic Léa Drucker) gradually discovers attraction and love anew with Théo (Samuel Kircher, cherubic and cruel at once, like all Breillat-penned men) and has to keep the secret from her husband Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin). Talking to Catherine Breillat a year since its Cannes debut, ahead of the film’s US release, allowed for some ...
3 days ago · The 75-year-old French auteur Catherine Breillat is a perennial provocateur. Even before she embarked on her directorial career, she worked in the shadow of cinematic scandal: Her first onscreen ...
Oct 16, 2023 · We were thrilled to welcome the inimitable French auteur, Catherine Breillat, to take part in a NYFF61 Deep Focus Talk about her career, capturing female sha...
Film at Lincoln Center presents “Carnal Knowledge: The Films of Catherine Breillat,” a complete retrospective of Catherine Breillat’s films, to be presented at FLC from June 21–27, in anticipation of the theatrical release of Last Summer on June 28.
