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CMS4320 Women& Film/Bonner UneVraie Jeune Fille(AReal Young Girl, CatherineBreillat, 1976; min.)
Abstract(adaptedfrom DVD box cover):It’sMay 1968 and Alice has returned home from school for her summervacation. Stifled by the boredom of life in the country, she becomesinfatuated with Jim, a young worker at her father’s sawmill. Whennot lusting after Jim, Alice spends her days writing her diary anddreaming up sexual fantasies. Alternating between reality andfantasy, Catherine Breillat vividly captures the feelings of a younggirl’s budding sexuality.

Romance(Catherine Breillat, 1999; 99 min.)
Abstract(adaptedfrom DVD box cover):Marie’sboyfriend, Paul, claims that he loves her, but that he has lost hisdesire for her. So he refuses to engage in sexual relations. Thiscatapults Marie into a desperate search for intimacy and eroticconnection. Marie’s escalating sexual journey tests her ownphysical and emotional limits, and, through an ironic twist of fate,eventually leads her to fulfillment.

Àma soeur! (FatGirl, CatherineBreillat, 2001; 86 min.)
Abstract(adaptedfrom DVD box cover):Twelve-year-oldAnaïs is fat. Her sister, Elena, is a teenage beauty. While onvacation with their parents, Anaïs tags along with Elena as sheexplores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italianlaw student, who seduces her with promises of love, and theever-watchful Anaïs painfully bears witness to the corruption of hersister’s innocence. Precise and uncompromising, CatherineBreillat’s FatGirl isa bold dissection of sibling rivalry and female adolescent sexualityfrom one of
contemporarycinema’s most controversial directors.

Sexis Comedy(Catherine Breillat, 2002; 94 min.)

Writer: Catherine Breillat
Producer: Jean-François Lepetit Cinematography: Laurent Machuel

Editor:Pascale Chavance
Productiondesign: Frédérique Belvaux Costume Design: Valérie Guégan

Abstract (adapted from IMDB.com)
Jeanne is a director struggling with a difficult sex scene between two actors who can't stand each other. Aided by her loyal assistant Leo, Jeanne is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise. In French the title’s translation might be something like: "Sex, c'est jouer la comédie," which could be translated as "Sex is faking it." Inspired by Breillat's own experiences (particularly those incurred while filming Fat Girl the previous year), Sex is Comedy explores the “comedy” of social manipulations, sex, and power that takes place within the confines of a film set and particularly a female director’s film set.

Cast:

Jeanne (Anne Parillaud)
The Actor (Grégoire Colin).

The Actress (Roxane Mesquida)
Leo, the first assistant (Ashley Wanninger) Willy (Dominique Colladant)

Directorof Photography (Bart Binnema) Continuity Girl (Elisabete Piecho)
Theproduction designer (Diane Scapa) The make-up artist (Ana Lorena)
Theset dresser (Júlia Fragata)

Questions for Discussion (for your journal, answer #3 or 4):
1. How does the director’s female sex affect her role in Sex is Comedy? Jeanne is often quite terse and insulting—bitchy, even. How would a similar male director be considered? Cite examples to support your arguments.

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2.Comparethe clips from UneVraie Jeune Fille, Romance, andA ma soeur toSexis Comedy.What rhymes,parallels, motifs, etc. to do you find? What differences do you find?

3.WatchUneVraie Jeune Fille, Romance, and/orA ma soeuron your own, noting how the pacing and intellectual tone ofBreillat’s films differ from and even defy classification as“obscenity” or “pornography.” Why is the sex act—and,perhaps especially, the real sex act—so important to these films?How does the knowledge that the actors are not “faking it” affectthe impact of these films? Cite examples to support your arguments.Extra credit for comparing 2 or more of her films.

(Duethis Thursday or next Tuesday; length can be 2-4 pages)

4.Considerour readings by Cixous, Grosz, the Breillat reviews and Denisinterview. How does Breillat’sstyle approach a feminine or feminist exploration of female desire?Cite examples from Sexis Comedy andthe readings to support your arguments. (Due Thursday, 2 pages max)

5.Couldthese films have been directed by a male to the same effect? Why orwhy not?

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