From her controversial 1976 directorial debut “A Real Young Girl” to even more confrontational later works like “Romance” (1999) and “Anatomy of Hell” (2004), French auteur Catherine Breillat has long ...

Léa Drucker stars as a woman who begins a fiery love affair with her teenage stepson in this French adaptation of the 2019 Danish drama 'Queen of Hearts.' By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief ...

Kristen Stewart drew a packed house of festivalgoers, locals and fans at France’s Deauville Film Festival for her masterclass titled My French Cinema and organized with Chanel. For the occasion, ...

The work of Catherine Breillat, the French filmmaker and novelist whose movies frequently explore the perversity animating male-female power dynamics in Western society, has always been fearlessly ...

French director Catherine Breillat has been breaking taboos throughout her career and her new Cannes Palme d’Or contender Last Summer is no exception. The erotic thriller stars Lea Drucker as Anne, a ...

You can always tell a character in a Catherine Breillat film because of how much they talk about sex. The act of conversation is more arousing for to the French director than that of copulation, even ...

Like the sisters in her new film, Fat Girl, the notorious transgressor Catherine Breillat has a love-hate relationship . . . with her audience. “I make movies about all the ambiguities of life,” she ...