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[Film Reviews from a Female Brain]

Catherine Breillat

  • Title is Dead On: ANATOMY OF HELL

    My first Catherine Breillat film and I chose her most complex, controversial, 2004 Anatomy of Hell (Anatomie de l’enfer ) which was, adapted by the director from her novel Pornocratie. Its groundbreaking, and formidably genius, as BBC film critic, Jamie Russell put it an example of “feminist existential porn”. It has also been hailed as Read more

  • The Great Breillat: FAT GIRL

    Catherine Breillat 2001 drama Fat Girl also titled À ma sœur! is the story of two sisters Anaïs played by (Anaïs Reboux) and Elena (Roxane Mesquida) spending the summer with their parents at a seaside house in France. The two wander off to a café in town and meet an Italian law student Fernando (Libero Read more