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Brief Crossing (French: Brève traversée) is a French film released in 2001 and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Sarah Pratt and Gilles Guillain. The movie explores the viewpoints of two people at different stages in their lives and their attitudes toward sex and relationships.
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A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship. Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip.
Anyone who has experienced a fleeting encounter will detect the ring of truth. Brief Crossing is richly layered yet grounded through an unsympathetic approach, which makes it a compelling film.
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- Catherine Breillat
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain
by Catherine Breillat. synopsis. Thomas, a French adolescent, meets Alice, an English woman in her thirties. The sea crossing encourages the woman to strike up a conversation, and then to enter into the game of seduction. Thomas lets himself be guided by her.
- France
- Brève traversée
- Brief Crossing
- 2001
During a crossing of the Channel, the passion between a young Frenchman of 15 years and an Englishwoman of 30 years. Work commissioned by the cultural channel Arte, this film is part of the “Masculine / Feminine” collection comprising the films of ten directors.
Brief Crossing (Brève traversée) is a French film released in 2001 and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Sarah Pratt and Gilles Guillain.
