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Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School. In the film business for over 40 years, Catherine Breillat chooses to normalize previously taboo subjects in cinema. Taking advantage of the medium of cinema, Breillat juxtaposes different perspectives to highlight irony found in society. Through film, she attempts to redefine the female narrative in cinema by showing female characters who undergo similar experiences as their male counterparts. Many of Breillat's films explore the transition between girlhood and adulthood. The females of her films attempt to escape their adolescence by seeking individuality. There is an unsaid silence in society for girls to hide their sexuality and desires unless directly confronted about them. Breillat offers a platform to discuss female pleasure and sexual responsibility by exposing social and sexual conflicts in her films' themes.
Born
Tuesday, 13 July 1948
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Abuse of Weakness | Une patiente à l'hôpital / Hospital Patient | 2013 |
Images de femmes ou Le corset social | Self | 2011 |
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism | Self - Interviewee | 2009 |
Great Directors | Self | 2009 |
Indie Sex: Teens | Self - Director | 2008 |
Lonsdale l'insondable | Self | 2007 |
On n'est pas couché | Self | 2006 |
Anatomy of Hell | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2004 |
A Housekeeper | Constance | 2002 |
Salò: Fade to Black | Herself / Self | 2001 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Abuse of Weakness | Une patiente à l'hôpital / Hospital Patient | 2013 |
Images de femmes ou Le corset social | Self | 2011 |
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism | Self - Interviewee | 2009 |
Great Directors | Self | 2009 |
Indie Sex: Teens | Self - Director | 2008 |
Lonsdale l'insondable | Self | 2007 |
On n'est pas couché | Self | 2006 |
Anatomy of Hell | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2004 |
A Housekeeper | Constance | 2002 |
Salò: Fade to Black | Herself / Self | 2001 |
SexTV | Self | 1998 |
Dracula and Son | Herminie / Herminie Poitevin | 1976 |
Last Tango in Paris | Mouchette | 1972 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Last Summer | 2023 |
Abuse of Weakness | 2013 |
Venice 70: Future Reloaded | 2013 |
The Sleeping Beauty | 2010 |
Bluebeard | 2009 |
The Last Mistress | 2007 |
La fidélité | 2006 |
Si je reste (un peu) | 2006 |
Anatomy of Hell | 2004 |
Sex Is Comedy | 2002 |
Fat Girl | 2001 |
Brief Crossing | 2001 |
Romance | 1999 |
Perfect Love | 1996 |
À propos de Nice, la suite | 1995 |
Dirty Like an Angel | 1991 |
36 fillette | 1988 |
Nocturnal Uproar | 1979 |
A Real Young Girl | 1976 |