Rendez-vous
36 Fillette
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Rendez-vous
Directed by André Téchiné.
With Juliette Binoche, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lambert Wilson.
France, 1985, 35mm, color, 82 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: HFA
An aspiring actress (Binoche) arrives in Paris and develops an intense sexual relationship with both a timid real estate agent (Wadeck Stanczak) and his disturbed roommate (Wilson), an actor who performs in public sex shows. While her romantic entanglements become destructive, her acting career prospers when a mysterious theater director (Trintignant) casts her in the leading role of a production of Romeo and Juliet. André Téchiné was awarded Best Director at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival for this provocative work, which he co-wrote with Olivier Assayas.
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36 Fillette
Directed by Catherine Breillat.
With Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Jean-Pierre Léaud.
France, 1988, 35mm, color, 88 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: HFA
A fourteen-year-old girl (Zentout) goes on vacation with her family in Biarritz with the goal of losing her virginity. She seduces a forty-something businessman (Chicot) but has second thoughts when the time comes to consummate their relationship. She finds some solace when she encounters a famous French personality at the resort (played by former angry young man Jean-Pierre Léaud) who offers some world-weary advice. No stranger to controversial material, Catherine Breillat (Romance, Anatomy of Hell) offers a more restrained vision of female sexuality than the more provocative explorations of her later films.
Part of film series
Screenings from this program
Ballad of a Soldier / The Forty-First
Nightfall / Great Day in the Morning
Verboten! / Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name / The Jokers
Hearts of the World / True Heart Susie
Anna Christie / The Long Voyage Home
Suddenly Last Summer / The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Quiet Days in Clichy / Henry and June
The Freshman / The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Sheep Has Five Legs / The Law is the Law
Hobson's Choice / Sidewalks of London
I Know Where I'm Going / Outcast of the Islands
An Inspector Calls / The Belles of St. Trinian's
Mother Joan of the Angels / Thérèse
Dawn of the Dead / Strange Behavior
