#catherine breillat
Abuse of Weakness // A Film By Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat is not the kind of girl who would suffer Judd Apatow. The French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School has often courted controversy for her films’ frank treatment of sexual themes. Her 1976 debut film, A Real Young Girl, was banned until 1999 because 1) the production went bankrupt and 2) controversy surrounding the shots of lead actress Charlotte Alexandra’s vulva. Alexandra was 20 years old at the time, her character 14.
In America, it seems like Breillat’s highest grossing movie, ~$730K, is 2003’s Fat Girl. You will not find Fat Girl or any of her other films on streaming or DVD Netflix. You will find Fat Girl on Amazon Instant Video—if you click through the disclaimer to show material with “explicit and adult themes.” You can also watch Fat Girl on Hulu or iTunes. But still the best place to catch films like Breillat’s is at the humble arts theater in your hometown. So you can be close to your fellow sex-obsessed intellectuals. That’s where I saw Abuse of Weakness, her latest, in downtown Chicago.
This film is not concerned with sex at all.
Stuart Ross ruminates on French auteur Catherine Breillat’s latest film, Abuse of Weakness.
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Fat Girl
2001, Catherine Breillat
Poster by Kim Maley
“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary’. It’s dark and tormented- the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.”
-Catherine Breillat
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underseen masterpiece list
a real young girl (1976, catherine breillat) france
alucarda (1977, juan lópez moctezuma) mexico
anatomy of hell (2004, catherine breillat) france
apocalypse after (2018, bertrand mandico) france
baxter, vera baxter (1977, marguerite duras) france
blanche (1971, walerian borowczyk) france
blood tea and red string (2006, christiane cegavske) usa
blue spring (2001, toshiaki toyoda) japan
céline (1992, jean-claude brisseau) france
demonlover (2002, olivier assayas) france/japan
dumplings (2004, fruit chan) hong kong
himiko (1974, masahiro shinoda) japan
i am keiko (1997, sion sono) japan
india song (1975, marguerite duras) france
innocence (2004, lucile hadžihalilović) belgium/france
ludwig (1973, luchino visconti) italy
marianne and juliane (1981, margarethe von trotta) germany
martha (1974, rainer werner fassbinder) germany
mr. klein (1976, joseph losey) france
poison (1991, todd haynes) usa
puzzle of a downfall child (1970, jerry schatzberg) usa
scarlet diva (2000, asia argento) italy
sex & fury (1973, norifumi suzuki) japan
successive slidings of pleasure (1974, alain robbe-grillet) france
taboo (1999, nagisa ōshima) japan
the night of the hunted (1980, jean rollin) france
the nun (1966, jacques rivette) france
the pillow book (1996, peter greenaway) uk
the river (1997, tsai ming-liang) taiwan
the sleeping beauty (2010, catherine breillat) france
the story of sin (1975, walerian borowczyk) poland
the tempest (1979, derek jarman) uk
the valley of the bees (1968, františek vláčil) czechoslovakia
toby dammit (1968, federico fellini) france/italy
venus in furs (1969, jesús franco) uk/italy
