Movies by Marie-Hélène Breillat

A Real Young Girl

A Real Young Girl

Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, a local sawmill worker. When not lusting after him, Alice fills the hours with such pursuits as writing her name on a mirror with vaginal secretions and wandering the fields with her underwear around her ankles. And, in true teenaged tradition, she spends a lot of time writing in her diary.

Last Tango in Paris

Last Tango in Paris

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan

The Irony of Chance

The Irony of Chance

A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise concerns the assassination of a German officer by a young member of the Resistance.