Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “One mistake that people often make is they confuse the script with the film,” Breillat told IndieWire. “The script is just a tool ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: A beautiful, high-powered fiftysomething (Léa Drucker) takes apparent leave of her senses, heeds her own perverse desire, and strikes up a carnal affair with her ...

The transgressive French filmmaker is in fine, fucked-up form with Last Summer, about a middle-age lawyer who starts sleeping with her stepson. Photo: Janus Films When Anne (Léa Drucker) has sex with ...

The second film in her planned trilogy of subverted fairy tales, Catherine Breillat's latest topples the tyranny of pink and princesses. The Sleeping Beauty, like last year's Bluebeard, is based on a ...

There’s no defending what Anne, a successful lawyer and mother, does when she begins an affair with her 17-year-old stepson, Théo, in the incandescent French drama “Last Summer.” And the director, ...

The work of Catherine Breillat, the French filmmaker and novelist whose movies frequently explore the perversity animating male-female power dynamics in Western society, has always been fearlessly ...

film profile], the filmmaker settles things with herself through a fictional account that is not biographical, she emphasizes, but rather recounts what she went through, after telling the story in a ...

Filmmaker Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl) has long made sex and female desire her central subjects, variously examining sexual awakening, sexual taboos, and transgressive habits in her work. Breillat’s ...

Kristen Stewart drew a packed house of festivalgoers, locals and fans at France’s Deauville Film Festival for her masterclass titled My French Cinema and organized with Chanel. For the occasion, ...

The provocative French auteur tells IndieWire how she finds meaning beyond the script in her approach to both the camera and the actors. “One mistake that people often make is they confuse the script ...