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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.
Jun 26, 2024 · 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 ...
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...
Jun 27, 2024 · Few directors get as deeply under the skin as Catherine Breillat, a longtime provocateur who tests the limits of what the world thinks women should do and say and be.
Catherine Breillat, Last Summer. It’s been a long decade’s wait since Catherine Breillat’s last feature, the semi-autobiographical Abuse of Weakness with Isabelle Huppert, but Last Summer shows the uncompromising French filmmaker in top form, at once fierce and precise.
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Jan 19, 2024 · But Catherine Breillat, the provocateuse, the epitome of New French Extremity, the whatever-the-edgy-descriptor-is-today, has made a film where love is possible. A remake of May el-Toukhy’s 2019 Danish film Queen of Hearts, Last Summer is a universe of its own.
Catherine Breillat (born 13 July 1948 in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres) is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.
Apr 21, 2020 · Catherine Breillat’s erotic arthouse dramas offer no easy titillation or consolatory escapism. Their take on sexual politics is philosophical and coldly analytical. Their casual brutalities mire us in a universe of random danger.
Oct 13, 2023 · Ten years after the release of her last feature, Abuse of Weakness (2013), Catherine Breillat returns with another tale of vertiginous desire. Unfolding in an idyllic country home seemingly cut off from reality, Last Summer tracks the affair between a steely attorney, Anne (a formidable Léa Drucker), and her 17-year-old stepson ...
Oct 26, 2023 · The French provocateur is in London to present her new film, Last Summer L’été dernier, 2023), a story about a woman who enters into an affair with her teenage stepson. It’s a remake of...
