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36 FILLETTE
by Catherine Breillat, Fiction, 88', 1987, 35mm, FRANCE
With Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Olivier Parnière, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-François Stévenin
In company of her parents and her elder brother, 14-year old
Lili, spends her holidays on a campsite of the Biarritz outskirts.
Aggressive and tormented, she maintains with her relatives
a conflict behavior and has only one idea on her mind:
To go out dancing, during one of her night escapades she
meets Maurice, the young girl finally agrees to go to the
hotel room of her older, rich male suitor. The young girl tries
to figure out and often changing her mind about—what she
wants from this man. She both provokes him sexually and
refuses herself to him, bringing about a complex relationship.
Finally, she prefers to lose her virginity with a boy of
her own age, during a one-night stand.
CATHERINE BREILLAT
Born in 1949, Catherine Breillat
writes her first novel at the age
of 17, L’Homme fragile that was
adapted for the cinema by
Claire Clouzot. She has written
many scripts: La Peau by Liliana
Cavani (1981) or Police by
Maurice Pialat (1985) before
adapting her own novel for the
cinema: A real young girl (1977)
that is finally released in 2000.
Since Nocturnal Uproar (1979)
Catherine Breillat has directed
ten feature films, She is known
not only for her films focusing
on themes of sexuality, gender
conflict and sibling rivalry.
Breillat's work is obviously the
product of a major auteur. |
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