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Feb 10, 2022 · The uncompromising filmmaker Catherine Breillat's sensational 1999 film, "Romance" has recently been restored in a new 4K HD version.The film is being showcased in a retrospective of Breillat's ...
May 25, 2023 · Still breaking boundaries at the age of 74, French filmmaker Catherine Breillat returns to the Cannes competition with a film that squarely confronts the one taboo that is still ring-fenced from ...
Jun 27, 2024 · This week we’re excited to present a conversation with Last Summer director Catherine Breillat and lead actress Léa Drucker from the 61st New York Film Festival. An NYFF61 Main Slate selection, Last Summer opens Friday at FLC, featuring Q&As with Breillat on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Q&A with Catherine Breillat on June 26. In what is still considered by many to be Breillat’s magnum opus, an overweight 12-year-old watches on as an Italian law student courts her beautiful older sister while they vacation in a seaside town, setting into motion a series of abject and disturbing events.
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.
Jun 25, 2024 · Nothing in this sick, sad world is simpler or more complicated than sex, a principle that helps to explain why the ever-provocative Catherine Breillat — whose films so often consecrate female ...
