The film somehow feels tight, open and leisurely, and cloaked in dread all at once.
This is anything but a paint-by-numbers revisioning of the United States’s exploitation of Naples during post-WWII liberation efforts.
Like its heroine, Abuse of Weakness wastes no time looking back.
Catherine Breillat’s scripting of Isabelle Huppert’s Maud as fatally distant from her family, willfully independent, but more believably abandoned, is haunting.
Breillat straddles the line between observational slice-of-life dramatics and the tumultuous sexual tug of war that dominates her subsequent body of work.
Strand Releasing has issued another enchanting, provocative fairy tale by Catherine Breillat in a barebones DVD package.
Is it possible for a cinematographer to be considered an auteur even more than the directors for which he works?
Sleeping Beauty is enervated, ludicrous, and the sort of unique debut that makes one impatient to see what comes next.
Catherine Breillat’s version of cinematic female agency is more worried about corporeal dynamism than psychic labor.
The drinks that go down amiably in Hahaha get caught in people’s throats in On Tour.
The Blu-ray release of Breillat's superb coming-of-age tale is worth taking a look at for the ever-blooming mysteries of the film itself.
Breillat’s films tend to examine sex in close quarters, trapping their characters in situations where they’re forced to confront otherwise ignorable realities.
The Great Directors is at the very least a breezy bit of cinephiliac entertainment.
A barebones DVD release of a predictably, spectacularly toothsome Breillat film.
A mysterious, handsome man lures women to their doom.
There are horrors, yet the film’s overall mood is one of enchantment.
Breillat discusses literary adaptations, Argento’s formidable force, and French cinema’s shortage of matinee idols.
Armed with a life-affirming mocha breve from Caffé Zingaro, I make my way to the subterranean blue battleship known as SIFF Cinema.
The film proves to be just as engaged with the impossibility of heterosexual relations and the vagaries of desire.
Asia Argento gives Catherine Breillat’s latest its pulse.