"Parfait amour!" (Perfect Love)

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Parfait amour!, Catherine Breillat (France, 1996)

Christophe has murdered Frédérique, his lover. Christophe is in his twenties, an entrepreneur who likes to pick up girls with his misogynistic friend Philippe; Frédérique is in her thirties, a doctor twice divorced with two children. After a police reenactment of the crime and an interview with her teen daughter, we are taken back to the start of their affair and follow it to its conclusion. Frédérique is attracted to Christophe’s sweet side; she’s emotional about her past and ambivalent about her sexuality. His sexuality later becomes an issue, as does his relationship with Philippe. Are the lovers drowning each other in attraction, expectation, and revulsion? Why does Christophe kill Frédérique?

What begins as a portrait of an idyllic relationship between a divorced woman and a younger man turns into a story with dark insight into romantic love and the machismo that prevails in sexual relationships.

Film will be screened in original version (French) with Catalan subtitles.

Catherine Breillat

This year's retrospective at the D'A film Festival is dedicated to the brilliant and transgressive French director Catherine Breillat whose electric and evocative new film L'Été dernier (France, 2023) will be screened alongside a selection of her films.

Breillat is one of the great references of contemporary erotic cinema. Her work abounds with an incisive and epidermal look at sex and its aspects. Her filmography goes from luminous comedies to sordid thrillers. She has directed fifteen films, many of which have been part of the official sections of Cannes, Berlin and Chicago, where she won the Golden Hugo award for Best Film for À ma soeur!.

A film in the 2024 edition of D'A Film Festival.

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