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May 15, 2024 · Provocative French filmmaker Catherine Breillat offers an idiosyncratic variation on a classic fairy tale with this fantasy. Young Princess Anastasia (Carla Besnainou) runs afoul of an ill-tempered witch who puts a curse on her, but while the witch initially condemns the princess to death, three fairies (Dounia Sichov, Leslie Lipkins, and Camille Chalons) are able to change the spell, so ...
Jan 19, 2024 · A massive age gap, incestuous themes, and, boy, does the internet love such discourse! 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.
Marie-Hélène Breillat. Actress: Last Tango in Paris. Marie-Hélène Breillat was born on 2 June 1947 in Talence, Gironde, France. She is an actress, known for Last Tango in Paris (1972), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1977) and Claudine (1978).
Jun 27, 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, and identity.
Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort. She decided to become a writer and director at the age of 12 after watching Ingmar Bergman's Gycklarnas afton, believing she had found her "'fictional body'" in Harriet Andersson's character, Anna.
May 27, 2023 · French director Catherine Breillat's latest feature, 'Last Summer,' stars Léa Drucker as a woman having an affair with her 17-year-old stepson.
Catherine Breillat. Catherine Breillat [bʁɛja] (s.13. heinäkuuta 1948 Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres) on ranskalainen elokuvaohjaaja ja -käsikirjoittaja sekä kirjailija ja näyttelijä, joka tunnetaan seksiä ja sukupuolisuutta suorasukaisesti naisen näkökulmasta käsittelevistä teoksistaan.
