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Catherine Breillat

1976–present·4 films

Debut so explicit it wasn't released for 24 years. Godmother of New French Extremity.

Most important female voice in transgressive cinema.

female gazeunsimulatedfeminist

Filmography

A Real Young Girl

1976

Breillat

Not released until 2000. Adolescent desire.

Romance

1999

Breillat

Explicit female sexuality. Triggered NFE.

Fat Girl

2001

Breillat

Adolescent sexuality. Brutal honesty. Shocking ending.

Anatomy of Hell

2004

Breillat

Her most extreme. Unsimulated.

4 films in Catherine Breillat