Catherine Breillat
For five decades Breillat has filmed female desire as a battlefield of power and shame, unflinching and unapologetic. À ma soeur! takes a summer-holiday story about two sisters somewhere most films about adolescence refuse to go.
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Abus de faiblesse
A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.
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Both use the body as a site of horror and transformation, flesh as honest, grotesque, unavoidable truth.
Female directors obsessed with female desire and its costs, refusing to sentimentalize or apologize for sexual intensity.
Both excavate repression and female interiority through bodies in spaces, cinema as psychological archaeology.
Contemporaries in European art cinema's unflinching interrogation of power, family, and the flesh, no sanctuary offered.
