Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat (born 13 July 1948 in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres) is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.
L'été dernier
One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.
Barbe Bleue
An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.
Une vieille maîtresse
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Anatomie de l'enfer
A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".
Sex Is Comedy
A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other.
À ma soeur!
Fat Girl deals with the themes of feminine puberty and sexuality. Filmed in southern France.
Brève traversée
A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.
Selon Matthieu
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble...
Romance
Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.
Parfait amour!
In Dunkirk, a man and a woman meet and fall in love, then hate each other.
Police
A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme.
La pelle
Dal romanzo di Curzio Malaparte. Durante la Seconda Guerra, nella Napoli occupata, un camorrista tratta lo scambio di prigionieri tedeschi con un ufficiale americano.
Bilitis
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
Une vraie jeune fille
Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality.