Such a formidable and expressive guest.

@LadyAmerican

Ай бұрын

She really is. Love her story on Andrei T. And On The Waterfront.

This was the most "French film director in the Criterion Closet" ever!! LOL!! It's nice that they gave her a chair and pulled her films beforehand. You know she has stories that you could listen to for hours!

She talks about cinema so poetically. This was really beautiful to listen to. 🥹

This fine lady surely must be one of the most engaging, interesting, expressive and generous of all guests to appear in the closet. Listening to her speak is almost akin to hearing poetry. Most guests to the closet bring something of value whilst others just try to big note themselves. Some are outright pretentious. Then you get the small number whom just shove dvds in their bag without sharing anything with the viewers. To take the time to speak with sincerity for the benefit of others is something only the best closet visitors share. What a delight this one was in particular. She moved me more than some films do.

The old generation of film markers is full of amaxing intelligent and truly deep people. People who really have something interesting to say. Please bring morecofvthem whilecthey still alive.

One of the best Criterion Closet videos in a long time. I like Breillat's films. I like her choices of films. This particular "guest" truly understands and appreciates cinema. She makes me almost want to fall in love with her enthusiasm, passion and knowledge. Now I want to go and revisit her films. Please, Criterion, some more.

This woman's films altered my perception of cinema, entirely. A Ma Soeur, Sex is Comedy, and Une Vielle Maitresse are some of my absolute favorites. Bless her. 🖤💐

I’m glad we finally met somebody that everybody likes you

This was like a mini masterclass. Beautiful words from a great filmmaker.

Love her novels and films. An incredible talent. Lucky to have seen 36 Fillette in 35mm last year

Incredible woman. In this new barbaric world she is one of the great directors still with us. Thank you Criterion for inviting her. She makes so many directors today look trivial.

I absolutely love when she picked up black Orpheus and she spoke about childhood & distractions.

"I think it's better to watch a masterpiece 100 times than to watch a film once that distracts you but has no use [...] An essential film transports you to another dimension." She so eloquently revealed to me why I fell in love with film. Original movies with stories to tell will sink into my bones and live there for years, while the usual churn from the Hollywood machine sloughs off my skin the day after I see it.

"Cinema is also something that welcomes you into a family." I love that!

@caseyclausen2627

18 күн бұрын

It's true, but hopefully that experience is not watching Anatomy of Hell with your in-laws.

She is an absolute legend of French cinema! Could listen to her stories all day. As others have said, indeed like a mini masterclass! ❤

Did not think I would see Breillat on here. Inspired.

We need more Imamura releases ("The Eel").

This is a lady who can really disturb you with rawness and human isolation but bring you back with that human desire for connection. "Romance" and "Anatomy of Hell"...just wow! Have to see them again sometime.

I miss living in Europe so much. It’s so much more intellectual on a daily basis/level with human interactions, and more familiar to me, as someone who went from living in the former USSR to the US’s south (well, DC, which has “northern manners and southern intelligence” 😂

One of the best closet vids ever.

Silvia Pinal was the face you identified with in Viridiana! What a face! and a great actress to boot!

I get a real sense just from watching this that Catherine burns inside like a supernova. Her passion, her vision, her focus seems inextinguishable. P.S. Shamefully I've never seen any of her films, but I'm just about to put that right.

I absolutely adore her

Damn, this is one of my absolute favorite Closet videos now. The way she talks about cinema being a family, and the importance of recognizing and knowing yourself was very very powerful. And her accent is divine.

Would love a Criterion Box Set of Breillat’s films. So many are trapped on DVD, deserve 4K. She’s obviously from the old school of cinema, still working from what I’ve read. A true master of female driven cinema.

@chickenringNYC

Ай бұрын

Indeed and she has a new film out right now!!

One of world cinema's most courageous writer directors. I've seen as much of her work as I could get my hands on.

Cave of treasures. That’s exactly the definition of the Criterion closet.

A truly inspiring and thought-provoking visit to the Criterion closet, in a manner only Breillat could accomplish.

Oh my God I love her!

Wonderful commentary, great choices

I really love her movie choices like Viridiana.

@marcyfan-tz4wj

Ай бұрын

criterion could certainly release that one on blu-ray!!!

Im not sure if it is Andrei Rublev that is the feature where parts of the shooting was lost for Tarkovsky but i seem to recall that Stalker required him to do reshots as some of the footage had been destroyed. Either way thanks for Braillet in the closet.

@aaronmaclean8658

Ай бұрын

Yes she mentioned that he said at dinner "parts of a film of his was destroyed" but she did not mention which one. I'd also guess it was Stalker as he essentially had to re-shoot the film. In The Sacrifice he only had to re-shoot the final house burning scene because of a camera operating oversight, not a lab "mistake".

What wisdom this woman radiates! 👏

Fabulous hair!

Best one yet!

Merci beaucoup madame!

This is something you get at a master class and here's free for all of us. Catherine the Great

Catherine is brilliant

It’s like listening to a novel you don’t want to end

" Vengeance is mine " is a masterpiece.

mal wieder sehr viel dazu gelernt

Je suis heureux que nous ayons enfin quelqu'un que tout le monde t'aime

I love her and her films

Queen.

wonderful

Breillat's "Fat Girl" (2001) is in the Criterion Collection. I wish her "Romance" (1999) were too. Both films are poetic, beautiful, and shocking.

this es great!

I love Viridiana too

please release 36 fillette

Can't argue with that.

Vengeance is Mine is Imamura’s masterpiece just as she rightly noted that Andrei Rublev is Tarkovsky’s.

❤

💜

What is she referring to when she says she was considered a pariah in France at one time?

@purplepapers

Ай бұрын

Her first novel was banned by French authorities for content (& possibly other reasons), and the subsequent adaptation, also her debut film, was blocked from commercial release for 20 years by it's distributor.

😊😊😊😊great

Aguante Silvia Pinal (Viridiana) !!!

Delightful, warm, brilliant, elegant woman who chose her films without an "agenda". Very moving.

My wife

Yup. She's French.

Please post the interview with Greta Gerwig, it's been months and most people haven't been able to see it 😢

Fat girl was horrifying. Easily one of the scariest movies I have seen.

Ça serait très cool de à choisir un cinéphile normale, comme par exemple moi, d’entrer le Criterion Closet et faire un vidéo comme ça.

Christ, so incisive and beautiful.

Why the French language always sounds so beautiful and sensual?. Especially if it is spoken by a woman..

😜😀😆

I loved Trois hommes et un Couffin. But why did they have to ruin it with an American remake?

Can please someone stop the lynch background noise?

well, that bergman collection is 250 quid, so you know... you should have invented a much better reason to snatch it lady!

@MrRazorblade999

Ай бұрын

Totally worth it

Is every movie she makes about sex? She seems to have a one track mind. Maybe pick a new subject.

Based on her films, im surprised she didnt take in the realm of the senses or something

Subtitles??? Can't you do a dubbed version? Also, I prefer pan & scan version to this "widescreen" nonsense you are doing. And finally, please throw in some explosions or superheroes shooting light beams out of their hands because this is SO BORING. She hasn't even directed ONE Marvel movie? Waste of time!

@spacedoubt15

Ай бұрын

You had me in the first half ngl XD

Yikes. I knew she had a stroke but I didn't realize how debilitating it was. Her left arm looks immobile.

It's very out of character for me to say something like this about an artist, but I find Breillat to be one of the most insufferably pretentious & talentless directors alive. MA SOEUR is a film student's imitation of _Nouveau Vague_ and ROMANCE and ANATOMY OF HELL feel like expensive film school projects: self-indulgent, navel-gazing pontification with vapid resolution. I don't doubt her sincerity & conviction, but the only film of hers I've seen worth watching is SEX IS COMEDY--i.e. a film about herding cats instead of locquacious pondering on the existential mythology of genitalia.

@caseyclausen2627

18 күн бұрын

Navels are not what I remember about Anatomy of Hell.

@Theomite

17 күн бұрын

@@caseyclausen2627 Me either, but I was trying to retain some couth.

Ehhh a lot of her stuff seems pretty sleazy

@das-apfel

Ай бұрын

so?

@Bo_Lew

Ай бұрын

Thank god, the morality police are here to save us!

@patricklewis9787

Ай бұрын

@@Bo_Lew Waaaah my life is much more free without standards now I can roll in as much shit as I please

@rafaelfernandeslopesdeoliv1700

Ай бұрын

She's french.

@h0lly_blue

25 күн бұрын

@@patricklewis9787 you would have a coronary watching a John Waters movie, pal.