Catherine Breillat, la première fois
Catherine Breillat, the First Time
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MOVIE CATEGORY
To frame and film Catherine Breillat is already to begin to sense the organic bond she has created between herself and her characters, between herself and her actors. She is that very young girl (la vrai jeune fille), always unstoppable and furiously stubborn, who never ceases to want to free herself. Not only to free her body, but above all to free the images—of herself, of the things we don’t want to see.
From A Real Young Girl and 36 Fillette, from Romance to Anatomy of Hell, Breillat’s cinema needs to interrogate the forbidden, even the obscene, to consequently interrogate the intimacy we all interact with every day. Luc Moullet, a director himself but also mythical signature for Cahiers du Cinéma, knows that well and listens Breillat and her actresses with passion, rendering a noble service to an unrepeatable director.
DIRECTORY
A less celebrated (but no less passionate and talented) director of the Nouvelle Vague group, a distinguished contributor to Cahiers du Cinéma, he is the author of some of the funniest films in the history of French cinema. From A Girl is A Gun (1971) to Parpaillon (1993), up to Land of Madness (2009), his cinema is distinguished by its biting sarcasm and his passion for the mountains. The documentary on Catherine Breillat is his latest film, but retrospectives continue to be dedicated to him, in recent years at the Trento Film Festival and at the UCLA Library in Los Angeles.
