Catherine BreillatFilmography

The Last Mistress

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aatou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau

Synopsis: Catherine Breillat's adaptation of An Old Mistress stars Fu'ad Ait Aatou as Ryno de Marigny, and Asia Argento as Vellini, two lovers in 19th century Paris. The two have been passionately involved for nearly a decade, but de Marigny attempts to end their relationship now that he is engaged to Read More

Bluebeard

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dominique Thomas, Lola Creton, Daphne Baiwir

Synopsis: Controversial filmmaker Catherine Breillat puts a new spin on an ancient story in this multi-leveled drama. In France in the mid-1950s, Catherine (Lola Creton) enjoys toying with her younger sister Marie-Anne (Daphne Baiwir) by reading her the story of the murderous and oft-married Bluebeard Read More

Sex Is Comedy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger, Dominique Colladant

Synopsis: Catherine Breillat's Sex is Comedy concerns a female film director, Jeanne (Anne Parillaud), who is attempting to film a sex scene in her new movie. Complicating the already emotionally difficult shoot is the fact that Jeanne and her lead actor (Grégoire Colin) are sexually involved. The scene Read More

Anatomy of Hell

Crew: Book Author, Director, First Assistant Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Catherine Breillat, Jacques Monge, Claudio Carvalho

Synopsis: A lonely and dejected woman (Amira Casar) learns that only when all inhibitions are cast aside will she be able to truly understand the truth about how men see women in this erotically charged exploration of sexuality from controversial director Catherine Breillat. Teetering on the edge of Read More

The Housekeeper

Actors: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Émilie Dequenne, Brigitte Catillon, Jacques Frantz, Axelle Abbadie

Synopsis: One of France's most respected filmmakers, Claude Berri here brings viewers the story of Jacques (Jean-Pierre Bacri) a middle-aged sound engineer whose wife has just left him. Living on his own for the first time in years, Jacques decides it's high time to clean up his life, literally and Read More

Fat Girl

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian, Romain Goupil

Synopsis: Director Catherine Breillat, who courted international controversy with her film Romance, once again pushed the envelope with this disturbing (if somewhat less explicit) look at adolescent sexuality. Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) is a 12-year-old girl with a weight problem and a downbeat disposition Read More

Brief Crossing

Crew: Director

Actors: Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain

Synopsis: Thomas (Gilles Guillain), a good-looking, 16-year-old French boy, races to catch a ferry from La Havre to Portsmouth. The clerk allows him on, despite the fact that his papers are in disarray. In the ship's cafeteria he meets Alice (Sarah Pratt), a much older British woman. Speaking English, she Read More

A Real Young Girl

Crew: Art Director, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Alexandra, Hiram Keller, Rita Meiden, Bruno Balp, Shirley Stoler

Synopsis: Directed by Catherine Breillat in 1975 but withheld from release for 25 years because Breillat's producer went bankrupt, Une Vraie Jeune Fille marked the director's feature debut. Like Breillat's controversial Romance (1999), Fille is concerned with the expression of female desire, and it Read More

Selon Matthieu

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Benoît Magimel, Nathalie Baye, Antoine Chappey, Jean-Marie Winling

Synopsis: One man's attempt to avenge his father has unexpected consequences in this drama from France. Matthieu (Benoit Magimel) and Eric (Antione Chappey) are two brothers who work in a factory alongside their father (Fred Ulysse). When father is fired under dubious circumstances, Matthieu is outraged and Read More

Romance

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand, Rocco Siffredi

Synopsis: Like Nagisa Oshima's erotic masterpiece In the Realm of the Senses (1976), this film's shockingly graphic depiction of sex blurs the line between art and pornography. Marie (Caroline Ducey) is unfulfilled by her relationship with Paul (Sagamore Stévenin), her narcissistic male model boyfriend, who Read More

Perfect Love!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Renauld, Francois Renaud, Laura Saglio, Agnes Soral

Synopsis: This realistic and disturbingly grim French drama centers on a May/December romance that goes tragically awry resulting in a brutal murder. The dark tale begins in Dunkirk where police inspectors attempt to reconstruct the murder of Frederique who is found sodomized by a broomstick and stabbed to Read More

À Propos De Nice, La Suite

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This French anthology is a tribute to A Propos de Nice (1930), a classic documentary that took a poetic and sometimes satirical look at life in the French Riviera town. This version blends fact and fiction to chronicle life in modern-day Nice and is comprised of seven vignettes, each directed by Read More

Couples et Amants

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marie Bunel, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Todeschini

Synopsis: Seemingly, Paul (Jacques Bonaffee) and Isabelle (Marie Brunel) have a wonderful, harmonious marriage. Yet Isabelle is not averse to having a little side action with another man in the afternoon, and Paul is really getting into his romance with one of his ophthalmic patients, a young woman who Read More

La Thune

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sophie Aubry, Sami Bouajila, Martin Lamotte, Isabelle Petit-Jacques

Synopsis: Kamel is the son of French-born Algerians, and he has learned fairly quickly that working for others, at least for him, is no way to ensure that he won't remain poor. However, he is a bright, enterprising lad, full of confidence and energy, and he soon gets a profitable but unconventional business Read More

Aventure de Catherine C.

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Hanna Schygulla, Robin Renucci, André Wilms

Sale Comme un Ange

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Lio, Nils Tavernier, Roland Amstutz

Synopsis: Georges Deblache (Claude Brasseur) is a police inspector who is past middle age and who is so despondent about his life that he refuses to have a medical check-up, even though he suspects he has cancer. His partner is Didier Theron (Nils Tavernier), who has recently married a woman whom he has Read More

36 Fillette

Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Oliver Parniere, Jean-François Stévenin, Berta D. Dominguez

Synopsis: Titled after the name of a little girl's dress size, the coming-of-age drama 36 Fillette follows a couple days in the life of 14-year-old Lili (Delphine Zentout), whose physically mature features contrast with her immature adolescent angst. Away from her home in Paris, she is painfully bored Read More

Zanzibar

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fabienne Babe, André Marcon, Francis Girod, Dominique Maurin

Synopsis: In this "inside look" at French filmmaking, Marechal (Francis Girod) - who is a has-been director - a producer, Vito Catene (Andre Marcon) and Camile Dor (Fabienne Babe), a big-name actress, have agreed to make a film about drugs, but don't have a story, financing, or any of the other elements Read More

Milan Noir

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Joaquim de Almeida, David Warrilow, Hanns Zischler, Jean Benguigui

Synopsis: Isabelle Huppert stars in this thriller as Sarah, a woman who has settled into a more or less normal life in Milan after her lover, a much-wanted terrorist, left the scene. Her life becomes complicated indeed when she becomes aware that he is about to return. The difficulty is that not only is she Read More

Police

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina, Pascale Rocard, Sandrine Bonnaire

Synopsis: This strange crime-cum-romance story starts out with the ordinary work-a-day life of Mangin, an apparently straight-and-narrow cop (Gerard Depardieu), and then segues into a love story after he meets Noria, a beautiful Arab woman (Sophie Marceau) who has just been arrested during a drug raid. Read More

Tapage Nocturne

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dominique Laffin, Marie-Helene Breillat, Bertrand Bonvoisin, Joe Dallesandro

Synopsis: A completely routine drama involving sexual situations and rough characters, this story directed and written by Catherine Breillat looks at the liaison between Solange (Dominique Laffin) and Bruno (Bertrand Bonvoisin). Solange is the female version of a womanizing film director who is confident Read More

Dracula Père et Fils

Actors: Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie-Helene Breillat, Raymond Bussières, Catherine Breillat, Anna Gael

Synopsis: Christopher Lee dons the Count's legendary cape once again for this satirical French-made entry in the vampire genre (titled Dracula and Son for American release). It seems Dracula's son (Bernard Ménez) is a bit reluctant to carry on the family's blood-drinking tradition on account of severe Read More

Catherine et Cie.

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jane Birkin, Patrick Dewaere, Jean-Claude Brialy, Vittorio Caprioli, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Jane Birkin stars in this sex farce as a young British prostitute in Paris who, after her soft-core business fails, decides to go big-time and incorporate herself, selling stock to four disparate investors. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Last Tango in Paris

Actors: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: In Bernardo Bertolucci's art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in "emotional exile" who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider) Read More