Exclusive: Léa Drucker leads Breillat's first film in a decade that focuses on a love triangle between a teen, his dad, and step-mother. Writer/director Breillat returns to filmmaking after more than ...
Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all North American rights for Catherine Breillat’s drama Last Summer (L’été dernier) following its well-received premiere in competition in the final days of the ...
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’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filming is being lined up for late 2027 on the project about small-town groupthink in 1930s Europe; Simenon’s 1939 novel is ...
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 role ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “One mistake that people often make is they confuse the script with the film,” Breillat told IndieWire. “The script is just a tool ...
The "Fat Girl" director is back at the top of her game with this surprisingly chaste incest drama about a middle-aged woman struggling to make sense of her own desire. Nothing in this sick, sad world ...
Kristen Stewart drew a packed house of festivalgoers, locals and fans at France’s Deauville Film Festival for her masterclass titled My French Cinema and organized with Chanel. For the occasion, ...
PARIS — In Parisian director Catherine Breillat’s world, everything is distilled down to one thing: sex. According to the helmer of “Romance,” one of last year’s most sexually provocative films, and ...
With Bluebeard, Catherine Breillat—perhaps the most willful feminist provocatrice in cinema today, whose stroke in 2004 made her even more determined to keep working—slyly subverts Charles Perrault’s ...