The films of
Catherine Breillat

Une vraie jeune fille (1976)
Catherine Breillat
  36 fillette (1988)
Catherine Breillat
  Sale comme un ange (1991)
Catherine Breillat
 
     
Catherine Breillat’s first film is a provocative portrayal of a teenage girl’s sexual awakening, daringly explicit, in a way which most viewers will find distinctly unpalatable...  [More...]   Even before she made this film, Catherine Breillat had acquired a reputation in her earlier novels and films for her frank and explicit portrayal of female sexuality...  [More...]   Sale comme un ange is another dark portrayal of human sexuality from Catherine Breillat, her fourth in a series of provocative and unequivocally personal films...  [More...]  

Romance (1999)
Catherine Breillat
  À ma soeur! (2001)
Catherine Breillat
  Sex Is Comedy (2002)
Catherine Breillat
 
     
Romance is a daring attempt by provocative novelist-director Catherine Breillat to portray the need for sexual fulfilment from the perspective of a young woman locked in a passionless relationship...  [More...]   In the wake of the controversy caused by Romance (her first internationally distributed film), Catherine Breillat created even more of a stir with À ma soeur!...  [More...]   After a series of shocking romantic dramas, featuring some of the most sexually explicit material to be made for mainstream cinema, Catherine Breillat made this curious pseudo-documentary in which she attempts to demystify...  [More...]  

Une vieille maîtresse (2007)
Catherine Breillat
     
     
Catherine Breillat is no stranger to controversy. The director who shocked audiences with her overt portrayal of female sexuality and outrageously lurid sex scenes in a string of films that includes Une vraie jeune fille...  [More...]