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    Virgin（36 fillette）

    Catherine BREILLAT 1987 France Fiction color 88min French 35mm
    Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third. The playboy's mix of depression and misogyny ends their unconsummated affair, so Lili has to hunt elsewhere.

    Director

    Catherine BREILLAT

    Catherine BREILLAT is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender trouble and sibling rivalry. Since her first own film Une vraie jeune fille (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.

    Catherine BREILLAT

    Selected Filmography

    • 1976《一個真正的年輕女孩》Une vraie jeune fille
    • 1999《羅曼史》Romance
    • 2001 Fat Girl 2002 Sex is Comedy
    • 2004《感官解析》Anatomy of Hell
    • 2007 An Old Mistress
    • 2010 The Sleeping Beauty
    • 2013《以脆弱之名》Abuse of Weakness

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