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...Like Bertolucci's Dreamers, Les Amants Réguliers (Regular Lovers), due for release in the fall, is set in 1968. It follows a group of protesters during the upheaval and afterward, when the world's attention has shifted. Up next - if funds materialize - is the Catherine Breillat film Une Vieille Maîtresse (An Old Mistress) with Asia Argento and French cinema grande dame Jeanne Moreau. The money will probably come; Garrel seems to have a nose for good projects. - By Grant Rosenberg/Paris Things just keep getting better for Maya Sansa. The 29-year-old Italian from Rome...
Somewhere, there must be talented filmmakers who present sex intelligently onscreen. Yes, and most of them are in Europe, where people have been grownup for ages. France's Catherine Breillat has three movies--Fat Girl, Sex Is Comedy and Anatomy of Hell--in current U.S. art-house release or just out on DVD. In these fascinating acts of cinematic aggression, which either skirt hard-core or plunge right in, Breillat strips her heroines to the bleeding soul. Anatomy of Hell, Breillat's latest, is notorious for the objects--a rake, a lipstick case, a tampon--used as sexual implements. Across...
...those who think that French people aren’t fans of freedom, this new film from notorious French auteur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, Romance) proves the French are at least big fans of sexual freedom. Brillat adapted from her own novel, Pornocratie, which begins with a random gay man stopping a random woman from slashing her wrists in a club bathroom. In return, she offers to pay him to watch her in her most private moments: she hopes he can began to understand her by watching “from the angle from which she should never be viewed...
...Bollywood drama Devdas, one of the most visually ravishing films ever made. Escape into brilliant technique: Alexander Sukorov's Russian Ark, which takes a tour of St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, and three centuries of Russian history, in one amazing 87-min. Steadicam shot. Escape into movies: Catherine Breillat's beguilingly erotic Sex Is Comedy, about a director preparing her two leads for a bedroom scene. It's a funny, delicate walk on the wild and wise side. But the top winner, in this fraught year, had to be a film about victims and survivors. For The Pianist's Szpilman...
...Girl Merci, French directors, for reminding audiences that sex, with its negotiations and lies, its beauty and messiness, its graphic, clumsy imagery, is a crucial part of the human drama. The best of a new bunch of dark, sometimes explicit French films about sex is Catherine Breillat's fable of two sisters, 12 and 15, who are rivals and comrades. Breillat juggles coming-of-age comedy with horror-tragedy in a film that lingers in the mind like the memory of a first, fatal affair...