Outside of porn movies, no film has ever explored sex more explicitly than Catherine Breillat's "Romance." This alone will make it a subject of controversy--one erect penis on a U.S. screen is more ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: A beautiful, high-powered fiftysomething (Léa Drucker) takes apparent leave of her senses, heeds her own perverse desire, and strikes up a carnal affair with her ...

This dread-soaked spellbinder may be French provocateur Catherine Breillat’s most uncomfortable film to date. The French provocateur Catherine Breillat gets her kicks with unnerving tales of sexual ...

The French filmmaker Catherine Breillat has been exploring relationships between girls and older men since the 1970s. Her latest, “Last Summer,” flips the script. By Carlos Aguilar When the French ...

Few directors get as deeply under the skin as Catherine Breillat, a longtime provocateur who tests the limits of what the world thinks women should do and say and be. By Manohla Dargis When you ...

There’s no defending what Anne, a successful lawyer and mother, does when she begins an affair with her 17-year-old stepson, Théo, in the incandescent French drama “Last Summer.” And the director, ...

The suspenseful, elegantly destabilizing “Last Summer” concerns a defense attorney, her businessman husband, her husband’s teenaged son from an earlier marriage — and a particularly dangerous corner ...

"FAT GIRL," the latest film from French writer-director Catherine Breillat ("Romance"), is the kind of stunning and contentious work of art that will leave a lot of folks speechless -- some because of ...

If some viewers found “Barbie” too anodyne even for a comedy, then the return of France’s “bad-girl” director, Catherine Breillat, should give them something more substantial to grapple with as she ...