You are in for a real treat with the later films of Breillat. I feel like each time, she finds a new way to push against sexual mores. Maybe her least graphic film, "Abuse Of Weakness" with Isabelle Huppert (who gives maybe the best performance I've seen this century) still defies and complicates definitions of trauma and victimhood.
Curious about this "Spook Who Sat By The Door" restoration. Love that movie, but it ends at maybe the book's 2/3rd point, when it then plunges straight into a race war scenario. I don't think ANYONE is gonna have the guts to adapt that part.
You are in for a real treat with the later films of Breillat. I feel like each time, she finds a new way to push against sexual mores. Maybe her least graphic film, "Abuse Of Weakness" with Isabelle Huppert (who gives maybe the best performance I've seen this century) still defies and complicates definitions of trauma and victimhood.
Curious about this "Spook Who Sat By The Door" restoration. Love that movie, but it ends at maybe the book's 2/3rd point, when it then plunges straight into a race war scenario. I don't think ANYONE is gonna have the guts to adapt that part.
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I look forward to catching up with her work now that I’m over the hump