Catherine breillat filmography

French filmmaker (born )

Catherine Breillat (French:[katʁinbʁɛja]; born 13 July ) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School.

In the film business for over 40 years, Breillat chooses to normalize previously taboo subjects in cinema. Taking advantage of the medium of cinema, Breillat juxtaposes different perspectives to highlight irony found in society.^[1]

Life and career

Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort.

She decided to become a writer and director at the age of twelve after watching Ingmar Bergman's Sawdust and Tinsel, believing she had found her "fictional body" in Harriet Andersson's character, Anna.^[2]

She started her career after studying acting at Yves Furet's "Studio d'Entraînement de l'Acteur" in Paris together with her sister, actress Marie-Hélène Breillat (born 2 June ) in Her novel, l'Homme facile (A Man for the Asking), was p