French filmmaker Catherine Breillat takes on taboo sex (again)
You can always tell a character in a Catherine Breillat film because of how much they talk about sex. The act of conversation is more arousing for to the French director than that of copulation, even in her explicit works like her 1999 breakout), she takes on taboo sex again as attorney Anne launches into an affair with her stepson Théo .
The teen is, as Anne’s sister Mina puts it, a problem child. Sent to live with his father, Pierre , and sauntering into the house like a Guess? model, he’s the tempting treat placed in front of Anne, and she gobbles him up. The stepmother fetish here is really a vehicle to examine the questions of an adult’s responsibility in a sexual relationship with a minor – although, as Breillat makes sure to point out, Théo is not legally an adult but still above the age of consent). Todd Haynes took a lurid look at the subject in the ripped-from-the-tabloids, and his soapy hand deprived it of anything other than skin-deep observation.
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