Anatomy of Hell, which is Breillat’s most graphic but joyless work yet, opens with a title informing us that since this is fiction, a body double was used to reveal the most intimate parts of her ...

France’s fiery Catherine Breillat gets down to business fast in “Anatomy of Hell.” A darkly beautiful woman (Amira Casar) wanders through a gay disco and touches a man (Rocco Siffredi), confident he ...

It received these reports on 22 June 2004 (see “Anatomy of Hell” full classification decision below). In order to seek leave from the Secretary of Internal Affairs, under s. 47 of the Films, Videos ...

The descriptive word most often draped around French filmmaker Catherine Breillat, almost like an apologetic bunting, is “provocateur.” Her admirers and her detractors alike must acknowledge that she ...

Catherine Breillat continues to flesh out her daring-to-dopey view of the flesh in "Anatomy of Hell." Compact, ultra-explicit two-character pic about what transpires when a beautiful straight woman ...

Catherine Breillat carries her signature thesis—that hetero sex expresses men and women’s mutual loathing—to its ludicrous extreme in this 2003 French feature. Amira Casar plays a sexual seeker ...

One of those places where people mingle without meeting. Where the music controls the bodies' impulses. Her languid boyfriend dances, his eyes focused only on himself. He doesn't look at her. He is ...

Haute Tension If you’re a regular reader of Filmmaker, you’ll recognize Travis Crawford‘s byline. He’s often in our pages writing about cutting-edge genre films, Asian auteurist work, and ...