A featherweight episode in Catherine Breillat's ongoing exploration of desire, sex and power, "Brief Crossing" is another ponderously intellectualized but trite post-feminist study in seduction and ...

Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A ...

From the age of 17, when she wrote a novel banned for its "pornographic" content, French provocateur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, Romance, the also-banned A Real Young Girl) has been spinning frank ...

Thomas, a French adolescent, meets Alice, an English woman in her thirties. The sea crossing encourages the woman to strike up a conversation, and then to enter into the game of seduction. Thomas lets ...