Catherine Breillat is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became
famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender
trouble and sibling rivalry. Accused of being a "porno auteuriste",
Breillat allowed for an unbiased view of sexuality and extended the
language of mainstream movies. She is also a best-selling novelist and
wrote her first novel, L'Homme Facile, at the age of 17. Breillat acted
in Bernardo Bertolucci's Der letzte Tango in Paris (1972) and wrote the screenplay for Maurice Pialat's movie
Der Bulle von Paris (1985) . Since her first own film Ein wirklich junges Mädchen (1976), which was released 23 years
after its shooting, Breillat explored critically as well as in an
innovative way the perceptions imposed on female sexuality, related
family and coming of age issues.
