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Catherine Breillat - what members say

A Ma Soeur! review by from Surrey

Shock tactics? 11 May 2004
...Catherine Breillat's latest offering once again tests the viewer's patience and delights in equal measure. Whilst A Ma Soeur covers familiar ground, it offers a deeply accurate p... Read customer review

Sex Is Comedy review by Goldenboots from East Grinstead, England

Dull Pretentious Rubbish 27 February 2004
...This was really pretentious. Director Catherine Breillat makes a comedy documentary about the making of the love scene in her previous movie, A Ma Soeur. Anne Parillaud plays the... Read customer review

Romance review by Tat from Colintraive

Ugh 29 April 2009
...ophical musings on the essential nature of relationships between men and women. Catherine Breillat is supposedly a feminist but I found it quite misogynist and lacking in any kin... Read customer review

Catherine Breillat - filmography

Bluebeard on DVD (2010)
Starring: Daphné Baiwir, Lola Creton, Dominique Thomas
Director: Catherine Breillat
Certificate:
In the 1950s, Bluebeard was the favourite tale of good little girls, one of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's ..read more »

51% from 219 members

The Sleeping Beauty (2010)
Starring: Julia Artamonov, Carla Besainou, David Chausse
Director: Catherine Breillat
Certificate:
A young princess is the subject of a tug-of-war among witches, as each struggles to find the suitable antidote to a death sentence inculcated by an evil sister.

65% from 8 members
Currently unavailable

Great Directors (2009)
Starring: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani
Director: Angela Ismailos
Certificate:
GREAT DIRECTORS, directed by Angela Ismailos, features original, in-depth conversations with nine of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. ..read more »

56% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

The Last Mistress on DVD (2008)
Starring: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida
Director: Catherine Breillat
Certificate:
Two of cinema's most thrilling and dynamic female talents - the provocative Asia Argentino and the controversial Catherine Breilllat - join forces in this audacious and sexually-charged tale of lust and seduction. Argentino gives an electifying performance as Vellini, the beautiful and headstrong ..read more »

53% from 1,709 member

Anatomy Of Hell on DVD (2004)
Starring: Amira Cesar, Rocco Siffredi
Director: Catherine Breillat
Certificate:
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Over the course of her career as a writer and filmmaker, Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) has never shied away from controversial topics, using both mediums to explore her strong feminist opinions. Joining a generation of similarly taboo-breaking French directors such as Francois Ozon and ..read more »

39% from 2,278 members

Sex Is Comedy (2002)
Starring: Gregoire Colin, Anne Parillaud, Roxane Mesquida
Director: Catherine Breillat
Certificate:
To call a French filmmaker a provocateur may seem redundant, but feminist auteur Catherine Breillat has managed to shock even her most liberated compatriots. The bad girl of Gallic cinema, Breillat has become known for her graphic and cynical takes on male-female sexual relationships and has faced ..read more »

40% from 1,352 member
Not currently released

Brief Crossing on DVD (2001)
Starring: Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain
Director: Catherine Breillat
Certificate:
Thomas (Gilles Guillain), a good-looking, 16-year-old French boy, races to catch a ferry from La Havre to Portsmouth. The clerk allows him on, despite the fact that his papers are in disarray. In the ship's cafeteria he meets Alice (Sarah Pratt), a much older British woman. Speaking English, she ..read more »

51% from 842 members

A Ma Soeur! (2001)
Starring: Anais Reboux, Albert Goldberg, Roxane Mesquida
Director: Catherine Breillat
Certificate:
Take two very naive, very young French girls--one a thin 15-year-old, Elena (Roxane Mesquida), and the other her fat 12-year-old sister, Anais (Anais Reboux). Picture them as lambs. Add a manipulative older Italian boy, Fernando (Libero De Rienzo). Picture him as the wolf. Witness from close range ..read more »

52% from 3,282 members
Not currently released

Romance on DVD (1999)
Starring: Caroline Ducey, Rocco Siffredi, Francois Berleand
Director: Catherine Breillat
Certificate:
Schoolteacher Marie is unhappy with her staid boyfriend, and begins a process of sexual experimentation. Gradually Marie gives herself to others, and then to anyone who wants her. First it's Paolo, an Italian, then Robert, an eccentric SM master. But Robert shows her something truly dangerous.

49% from 1,700 member

Catherine Breillat facts

5 most recent films

Bluebeard - 2.5 stars
The Sleeping Beauty - 3.5 stars
Great Directors - 3.0 stars
The Last Mistress - 2.5 stars
Anatomy Of Hell - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Last Mistress - 2.5 stars
A Ma Soeur! - 2.5 stars
Brief Crossing - 2.5 stars
Bluebeard - 2.5 stars
Romance - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Great Directors - 3.0 stars
The Sleeping Beauty - 3.5 stars
Anatomy Of Hell - 2.0 stars
Sex Is Comedy - 2.0 stars
Romance - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Rocco Siffredi - 3 times - show films
Roxane Mesquida - 3 times - show films
Anne Parillaud - 2 times - show films
Amira Cesar - 2 times - show films
Sarah Pratt - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Angela Ismailos - 1 times - show films