Catherine Breillat is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender trouble and sibling rivalry. Accused of being a 'porno auteuriste', Breillat allowed for an unbiased view of sexuality and extended the language of mainstream movies. She is also a best-selling novelist and wrote her first novel, L'Homme Facile, at the age of 17. Bre ...
show all Catherine Breillat is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender trouble and sibling rivalry. Accused of being a 'porno auteuriste', Breillat allowed for an unbiased view of sexuality and extended the language of mainstream movies. She is also a best-selling novelist and wrote her first novel, L'Homme Facile, at the age of 17. Breillat acted in Bernardo Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris (1982)" and wrote the screenplay for Maurice Pialat's movie "Police (1984)". Since her first film "Une vraie jeune filles (2000)", Breillat explored critically, as well as innovatively, the perceptions imposed on female sexuality, related family and coming of age issues. Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where she conducts an Intensive Summer Workshop.
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