Posted AT 5:18 AM EDT on 25/07/08
Controversial director moves forward – one scandal at a time
She has been called a "porno auteuriste." Indeed, Catherine Breillat is probably better known in mainstream media for the controversies that surround her often sexually explicit films, as opposed to the more subtle, cerebral details of her work celebrated by serious critics and cineastes.
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