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Director

Catherine Breillat

France · Bressuire · b. July 13, 1948

The anatomist of desire and shame, she films the body with surgical precision and no mercy. Her cinema is transgression made beautiful — sex and violence inseparable, the female gaze turned unflinching upon itself.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →