Rate: The Films of Catherine Breillat

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Watched my first from her yesterday. It was great. Very observant and daring. Word is the rest of her filmography is quite good as well.

[Boner M]

Fat Girl - 7.5
Brief Crossing - 7.5
The Last Mistress - 6.5

Switched off Anatomy of Hell about halfway into it, cos it wouldn't stop yelling at me. Really wanna see some of her earlier stuff, as well as the work of more post-French new wave filmmakers (love what I've seen of Garrel, Pialat and Akerman, need to investigate Eustache, Doillon, Rozier et al).

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Fat Girl - 7.5
Brief Crossing - 7.5
The Last Mistress - 6.5

Switched off Anatomy of Hell about halfway into it, cos it wouldn't stop yelling at me. Really wanna see some of her earlier stuff, as well as the work of more post-French new wave filmmakers (love what I've seen of Garrel, Pialat and Akerman, need to investigate Eustache, Doillon, Rozier et al).

You don't seem terribly enthusiastic about her. Based off those ratings, I can't really predict how you'd react to A Real Young Girl. It's a bit incessant, and the drama isn't as effective as it should've been, but it's still a great movie. I'd wager it's the most explicit film I've ever seen.

[Boner M]

You don't seem terribly enthusiastic about her. Based off those ratings, I can't really predict how you'd react to A Real Young Girl. It's a bit incessant, and the drama isn't as effective as it should've been, but it's still a great movie. I'd wager it's the most explicit film I've ever seen.
Actually, those are pretty good ratings for me (esp. since nobody ever seems to talk about Brief Crossing) and I think I'll like Fat Girl even more if I see it again. And even though The Last Mistress didn't entirely work for me, the Algerian desert sequence is one of the most haunting I've seen in recent films.

A Real Young Girl or 36 Fillette will likely be my next stop.

EDIT: I also found out that she wrote Pialat's Police, of which I ordered the new Masters of Cinema edition from amazon.uk last week.

[Raiders]

Romance - [47]
Fat Girl - [69]
Brief Crossing - [55]

Would like to see more, though I'm not terribly enthusiastic about it as she has yet to really impress me.

[Ezee E]

Nothing yet. I'll check out The Last Mistress but nothing really excites me too much.

[Mysterious Dude]

Fat Girl **½
The Last Mistress ***

[Spinal]

The Last Mistress - ***1/2
Anatomy of Hell - ***
Sex is Comedy - ***1/2
Brief Crossing - ***1/2
Fat Girl - ****
Romance - ***
Perfect Love - ***
36 fillette - ***1/2
A Real Young Girl - ***1/2

One of my favorites.

[Yxklyx]

Fat Girl - 6

[baby doll]

Une vraie jeune fille (1976) / ***
Romance (1999) / ***1/2
À ma soeur! (2001) / ****
Sex Is Comedy (2002) / ***1/2
Anatomie de l'enfer (2004) / ** (but I need to re-see it)

She seems like a pretty awesome lady.

[Melville]

Fat Girl - 7.5

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Actually, those are pretty good ratings for me (esp. since nobody ever seems to talk about Brief Crossing) and I think I'll like Fat Girl even more if I see it again. And even though The Last Mistress didn't entirely work for me, the Algerian desert sequence is one of the most haunting I've seen in recent films.

A Real Young Girl or 36 Fillette will likely be my next stop.

EDIT: I also found out that she wrote Pialat's Police, of which I ordered the new Masters of Cinema edition from amazon.uk last week.

Ahh. Well. I guess we'll see how you react to A Real Young Girl.


The Last Mistress - ***1/2
Anatomy of Hell - ***
Sex is Comedy - ***1/2
Brief Crossing - ***1/2
Fat Girl - ****
Romance - ***
Perfect Love - ***
36 fillette - ***1/2
A Real Young Girl - ***1/2

One of my favorites.

Ah. Cool. Seems Fat Girl might be the way to go next. I was thinking that one anyways.

[Bosco B Thug]

Fat Girl is a super cool film. 8.5/10. Need to see more from her.

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Fat Girl is a super cool film. 8.5/10. Need to see more from her.

Super cool? For some reason, I doubt that's how I'll be describing it afterwards.:lol:

[NickGlass]

Watched my first from her yesterday. ... Very observant and daring.

That's exactly what you should expect from her work: audacity and awareness. With the exception of Fat Girl, however, I've found that her films loose a bit of steam (in many respects) towards the end. Fat Girl is quite the opposite.

Fat Girl: 9.0
Sex is Comedy: 6.5
The Last Mistress: 6.5

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That's exactly what you should expect from her work: audacity and awareness. With the exception of Fat Girl, however, I've found that her films loose a bit of steam (in many respects) towards the end. Fat Girl is quite the opposite.

Fat Girl: 9.0
Sex is Comedy: 6.5
The Last Mistress: 6.5

Cool.:)