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 ...

The provocative French auteur tells IndieWire how she finds meaning beyond the script in her approach to both the camera and the actors. “One mistake that people often make is they confuse the script ...

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 ...

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 ...

The French provocateur Catherine Breillat gets her kicks with unnerving tales of sexual coercion, but a clothed, close-up first kiss in “Last Summer” may be her most excruciating to date. The woman is ...

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 ...

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film profile], the filmmaker settles things with herself through a fictional account that is not biographical, she emphasizes, but rather recounts what she went through, after telling the story in a ...

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 ...

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, ...