Abuse Of Weakness (2013)
Film about Catherine Breillat’s 2004 stroke and subsequent self-destructive relationship with star swindler Christophe Rocancourt.
Anatomy Of Hell (2004)
French intellectual take on kinky sex between a gay man and a suicidal woman.
Brief Crossing (2001)
A romantic liaison on a ferry crossing.
Fat Girl (2000)
Two teenage sisters at French holiday resort respond to agony and ecstasy of first time sex.
The Last Mistress (2007)
Exploration of aristocratic fidelity in 18th Century France.
Romance (1999)
A woman whose boyfriend refuses to have sex with her begins to embrace sadomasochism.
Sex Is Comedy (2002)
A director struggles to shoot the sex scene central to her film.
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