Search results for: Catherine Breillat

Love her or hate her, there’s no denying Catherine Breillat is a force to be reckoned with. Her oeuvre is filled with raw sexuality, mental illness and sibling rivalry.

If the debilitating after-effects of a stroke weren't bad enough (she miraculously gave birth to not one (The Last Mistress) but two films when you add the NYFF selection Bluebeard) now comes word that the Bad Love (a project which she mentioned to us the last time she came to NYFF for a film), a remake of Breillat's own film, is DOA.

Une Vieille Maîtresse got a fairly cold reception among critics at this year’s Cannes, yet the consensus was that this is perhaps Catherine Breillat's...

With Assayas currently on a roll with Carlos and Summer Hours, we imagine this coming-of-age project as in the vein of The Dreamers with perhaps some biographical elements embedded in the protagonist (first time actor Clement Metaye plus the co-lead is Lola Créton who is the latest icon in French auteur cinema as she was recently seen in Catherine Breillat's Bluebird and in Assayas' significant other Mia Hansen-Løve's Goodbye First Love.

Similar to the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, or the Visions and Vanguard programmes at TIFF, Venice has their own special sidebar for the more experimental folk on the cinema stage, called Orizzonti (Horizons). Last year saw some pretty heavy titles in this section, including Catherine Breillat's dream fable Sleeping Beauty, José Luis Guerín's local colour doc Guest, Hong Sang-soo's quadrant-structured Oki's Movie, and Patrick Keiller's continuation of his heady essay films with Robinson in Ruins.