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 ...

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 ...

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Vivid portrayals of sex were plentiful at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, but for sheer, confrontational, anatomical detail, none came close to Catherine Breillat’s ultragraphic “Anatomy of Hell,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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French filmmaker Catherine Breillat is renowned for her dark, confrontational explorations of sexuality, but this misfire, about a disturbed woman who pays a gay man to watch her during her intimate ...