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Catherine Breillat is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Casting, Production Design and Costume Design French born on 13 july 1948 at Bressuire (France)

Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat
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Nationality France
Birth 13 july 1948 (75 years) at Bressuire (France)
Awards Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎

Catherine Breillat (born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.

Biography

Parcours
Catherine Breillat, sœur de l'actrice Marie-Hélène Breillat, publie en 1968 son premier roman L'Homme facile, interdit aux moins de 18 ans. Elle a été mariée quelques années avec François Wimille, cousin d'Inès de La Fressange et futur éditeur.

En 1972, elle joue aux côtés de sa sœur dans Le Dernier Tango à Paris de Bernardo Bertolucci.

Au milieu des années 1970, en pleine vague du cinéma « X » et érotique, un producteur lui propose de réaliser un film à partir de son livre Une vraie jeune fille. Le film, qui contient des scènes pornographiques, ne sort pas en raison de la faillite de son producteur et du blocage de son distributeur Artedis pendant vingt ans.

Après un second film, Tapage nocturne, elle met sa carrière de réalisatrice entre parenthèses et se consacre à scénariser pour d'autres, notamment pour Federico Fellini (Et vogue le navire...) et Maurice Pialat (Police).

Elle retourne à la réalisation avec 36 fillette (également adapté d'un de ses romans) et Sale comme un ange (scénario refusé par Maurice Pialat). Appréciée par la critique mais inconnue du public, elle rencontre enfin le succès avec Parfait amour !, en 1996, suivi de Romance, en 1999.

Catherine Breillat a enseigné, notamment, à la FEMIS et à l'université Columbia.

Le 5 avril 2005, elle est victime d'une hémorragie cérébrale qui entraîne une paralysie du côté gauche. Après cinq mois d'hospitalisation et une lente rééducation, elle parvient à reprendre le travail et réalise Une vieille maîtresse, d'après Barbey d'Aurevilly. C'est l'un des trois films français de la sélection officielle du festival de Cannes 2007.

Catherine Breillat a également mis en images trois titres de la chanteuse Élodie Frégé : Je te dis non, issu de son premier opus, et, plus récemment, deux chansons de l'album Jeu des 7 erreurs, à savoir Si je reste (un peu) et La Fidélité.

En 2019 elle préside le jury de la compétition internationale du 72e Festival de Locarno.


Affaire Rocancourt
Alors qu'elle projette de réaliser un film intitulé Bad Love, écrit pour Naomi Campbell qui devait en être la vedette, elle contacte Christophe Rocancourt pour tenir l'un des rôles principaux aux côtés du mannequin britannique. Le film ne pourra cependant pas se monter, Rocancourt étant refusé par le producteur Flach Film.

La cinéaste révèle en juillet 2009 avoir été victime d'une escroquerie de la part de Rocancourt qui, profitant de son handicap et de sa faiblesse, lui aurait soutiré des chèques pour plus de 850 000 euros. Jugé et reconnu coupable d'abus de faiblesse, Rocancourt est condamné le 17 février 2012 à seize mois d'emprisonnement dont huit fermes assortis d'un contrôle judiciaire, ainsi qu'à une amende de 578 000 euros, mais, compte tenu de la détention provisoire déjà effectuée, il est remis en liberté le jour même. Il déclare à France info : « On donnera 20 euros par mois pendant 2 000 ans. »

La romancière publie en 2009 un livre consacré à cette affaire. Intitulé Abus de faiblesse, il a été rédigé en collaboration avec Jean-François Kervéan. Elle réalise en 2013 une adaptation cinématographique, avec Isabelle Huppert et Kool Shen, sous le même titre.

Best films

Bilitis (1977)
(Dialogue)
Police (1985)
(Director)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Catherine Breillat (35 films)

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Actress

Abuse of Weakness, 1h45
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Escroquerie
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Kool Shen, Christophe Sermet, Daphné Baiwir, Jean-François Lepetit, Catherine Breillat
Roles Une Patiente à l'Hôpital (uncredited)
Rating58% 2.943432.943432.943432.943432.94343
Maud Schoenberg est une réalisatrice. À la suite d'une hémorragie cérébrale, elle devient hémiplégique. Désormais « orpheline » de son corps, elle doit également faire face à une douloureuse solitude.
Mutantes
Mutantes (2009)
, 1h30
Directed by Virginie Despentes
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentary films about prostitution, Political films, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Catherine Breillat, Annie Sprinkle
Roles Self - Interviewee
Rating63% 3.1551553.1551553.1551553.1551553.155155
Une série d'entretiens internationaux (États-Unis, France, Espagne) avec des intellectuels, écrivains, théoriciens, militants queer sur le féminisme pro-sexe et la postpornographie. L'ensemble des propos est illustré par des images d'archives centrées sur l'action politique des travailleuses du sexe et par la captation de performances artistiques.
Great Directors, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors David Lynch, Todd Haynes, Stephen Frears, Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater
Roles Self
Rating63% 3.1903553.1903553.1903553.1903553.190355
Great Directors features interviews with Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles.
Anatomy of Hell, 1h17
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama, Pornographic
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Catherine Breillat
Roles Narrator (voice)
Rating44% 2.2059852.2059852.2059852.2059852.205985
Teetering on the edge of overwhelming ennui, a lonely and dejected woman pays a gay man to join her for a daring, four-day exploration of sexuality in which both reject all convention and smash all boundaries while locked away from society in an isolated estate. Only when the man and woman confront the most unspeakable aspects of their sexuality will they have a pure understanding of how the sexes view one another.
The Housekeeper, 1h25
Directed by Claude Berri
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Jean-Pierre Bacri, Brigitte Catillon, Jacques Frantz, Émilie Dequenne, Axelle Abbadie, Catherine Breillat
Roles Constance
Rating62% 3.1379853.1379853.1379853.1379853.137985
Une jeune femme de ménage emménage chez son employeur, un quinquagénaire séparé depuis quelques mois. Une relation naît entre eux...
Dracula and Son, 1h36
Directed by Édouard Molinaro
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Dracula films, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Actors Christopher Lee, Bernard Ménez, Bernard Alane, Anna Gaël, Catherine Breillat, Raymond Bussières
Roles Herminie Poitevin
Rating54% 2.7137152.7137152.7137152.7137152.713715
With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula (Christopher Lee) and his son Ferdinand (Bernard Menez) head abroad. The Prince of Darkness ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl.
Last Tango in Paris, 2h5
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, Marie-Hélène Breillat
Roles Mouchette
Rating69% 3.4506953.4506953.4506953.4506953.450695
Paul (Marlon Brando), a middle-aged American hotel owner mourning his wife's suicide, meets a young, engaged Parisian woman named Jeanne (Maria Schneider) at an apartment that both are interested in renting. Paul takes the apartment after they begin an anonymous sexual relationship there. He insists that neither of them share any personal information, not even given names. The affair continues until one day Jeanne arrives at the apartment and finds that Paul has packed up and left without warning.

Director

Abuse of Weakness, 1h45
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Escroquerie
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Kool Shen, Christophe Sermet, Daphné Baiwir, Jean-François Lepetit, Catherine Breillat
Rating58% 2.943432.943432.943432.943432.94343
Maud Schoenberg est une réalisatrice. À la suite d'une hémorragie cérébrale, elle devient hémiplégique. Désormais « orpheline » de son corps, elle doit également faire face à une douloureuse solitude.
Bluebeard
Bluebeard (2010)
, 1h20
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films, Children's films
Actors Lola Créton, Dominique Thomas, Daphné Baiwir, Farida Khelfa
Rating62% 3.1445353.1445353.1445353.1445353.144535
In the 1950s, Catherine toys with her older sister, Marie-Anne, by reading her the story of Bluebeard which scares her. As Catherine rereads the story, the film moves to 1697, where two sisters, Marie-Catherine and Anne, have just lost their father. With the loss of their father the two have no dowries, and so agree to attend a party thrown by Lord Bluebeard, in his search for a new wife. Although it is rumored that Bluebeard has murdered all of his previous wives, as they all disappeared within a year after the marriage, Lord Bluebeard and Marie-Catherine, the younger sister, develop a connection and are soon married. Despite their age difference, the two develop a close bond, and Bluebeard dotes on his new young wife. He must leave her periodically to attend to far off business and when he does he gives her the keys to the castle and tells her to enjoy herself while he is gone. She appears to miss him terribly and is overjoyed when he returns.
The Last Mistress, 1h44
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Asia Argento, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Yolande Moreau, Michael Lonsdale, Anne Parillaud
Rating61% 3.0965553.0965553.0965553.0965553.096555
In 1835 Paris, Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad Aït Aattou), before getting married to the young and innocent Hermangarde (Roxanne Mesquida), makes a last visit to La Vellini (Asia Argento), his Spanish mistress, to bid goodbye in an act of lovemaking. His liaison with La Vellini is the subject of Parisian gossip, and before Hermangarde's grandmother gives her blessing, she wants to hear from Ryno everything about this relationship. Ryno reveals a tempestuous story but indicates that his ten year romance is over; he now is in love with Hermangarde. After the marriage, the newlyweds move away to a castle at the seashore. They are happy and soon Hermangarde conceives. But the "last/old mistress" reappears, and while Ryno tries to keep her out of his life, she is not to be rejected, and Hermangarde finds out about it.
Anatomy of Hell, 1h17
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama, Pornographic
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Catherine Breillat
Rating44% 2.2059852.2059852.2059852.2059852.205985
Teetering on the edge of overwhelming ennui, a lonely and dejected woman pays a gay man to join her for a daring, four-day exploration of sexuality in which both reject all convention and smash all boundaries while locked away from society in an isolated estate. Only when the man and woman confront the most unspeakable aspects of their sexuality will they have a pure understanding of how the sexes view one another.
Sex Is Comedy, 1h34
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about films
Actors Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida
Rating56% 2.8035252.8035252.8035252.8035252.803525
La réalisatrice Jeanne rencontre des difficultés sévères pendant le tournage de son nouveau film. Bien qu'il fasse froid, il faut tourner une scène de vacances d'été à la mer.
Brief Crossing, 1h45
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Gilles Guillain, Sarah Pratt
Rating67% 3.390863.390863.390863.390863.39086
Ce film narre la rencontre sensuelle entre la Britannique Alice, une jeune femme de 30 ans, mariée et mère de famille, et Thomas, adolescent français de 16 ans, durant la traversée sur un ferry reliant la France à l'Angleterre.
Fat Girl
Fat Girl (2001)
, 1h33
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about pedophilia, Films about virginity
Actors Roxane Mesquida, Arsinée Khanjian, Libero De Rienzo, Romain Goupil, Laura Betti, Albert Goldberg
Rating63% 3.198283.198283.198283.198283.19828
Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) and her older sister, Elena (Roxane Mesquida) are vacationing with their parents on the French seaside. Bored of staying in their vacation home, the two walk into town while discussing relationships and their virginity. Although the highly attractive Elena has been promiscuous, she is saving herself for someone who loves her, while heavy-set, overweight Anaïs thinks it is better to lose one's virginity to a "nobody" just to get it over with.
A Real Young Girl, 1h34
Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama, Erotic
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, La sexualité des mineurs
Actors Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Bruno Balp, Rita Maiden, Georges Guéret
Rating53% 2.6510852.6510852.6510852.6510852.651085
Alice Bonnard (Charlotte Alexandra), a 14-year old girl attending a boarding school in France, comes back to her home in the Landes forest for the summer of 1963. She flashes back to her time at school, where she frequently masturbated out of boredom. Her father (Bruno Balp) hires a young man named Jim (Hiram Keller), with whom Alice immediately becomes infatuated. Alice has a graphic sexual fantasy in which Jim ties her to the ground with barbed wire, and attempts to insert an earthworm into her vagina. When the earthworm will not fit, Jim tears it into small pieces and puts them in Alice's pubic hair.