Dirty Like An Angel -catherine Breillat- | 1991- [new]

: Explores the "shame and pleasure" themes that Breillat claims define all her work. Letterboxd Community Reviews

This film is a crucial bridge. After making more conventional (though still edgy) films in the 80s, Breillat used Dirty Like an Angel to purge her interest in genre. By turning noir inside out, she freed herself to make the radical, unsentimental, and formally daring films of the late 90s and 2000s. Dirty Like an Angel -Catherine Breillat- 1991-

Style & structure

To understand Dirty Like an Angel , one must abandon conventional cinematic morality. Breillat is not interested in whodunnit. She is interested in the transaction of looking. : Explores the "shame and pleasure" themes that