Brief Crossing

Obviously not the first to say it, but this really is Breillat's Before Sunrise. Definitely wears her style on its sleeve but also has this uniquely tender and compassionate blanket wrapped around the core of it all. Breillat really is at her very best when she's going Writer Mode and letting herself novelize the dialogue like she does here.

Obviously not the first to say it, but this really is Breillat's Before Sunrise. Definitely wears her style on its sleeve but also has this uniquely tender and compassionate blanket wrapped around the core of it all. Breillat really is at her very best when she's going Writer Mode and letting herself novelize the dialogue like she does here.

Can human connection really saves us from the economic and societal alienation we all have to live under but often seperately? I would say if you haven’t seen a Catherine Breillat film Brief Crossing with its subversive almost Rohmer-Ian take on a romance David Lean type premise, its opinionated yet sympathetic characters and Breillat’s more observant style makes for a relatively accessible and engaging experience. Sure Romance and Anatomy of Hell is more daring and complex but there is also a desperation to the intimate connection of Brief Crossing that precisely reflects the artificiality of not just the system or the premise here but also certain acts either it be sex, kindness, seduction etc, ideal scandalous romance, rather it is the meaning behind them, the embrace of escape and understanding of the act even if it is fleeting and maybe in the grand scheme of things unimportant that makes it meaningful, maybe even makes you grow, even if again it is almost fantastically routine. It’s also the fact that the characters just talking, diving deeper into who they are, their desires and heartache the bandaid all the more ripped by their drunken state is even more intense and revealing then any titillation, along with that, how Breillat uses the structure and form to specifically talk about aging, sex and pressures as a woman, and the two dialogue less bookends, this is just really well arranged, at once heartbreaking because the dream inevitably ends but to have it in the first place, alien, unannounced, strange yet familiar, Brief Crossing reaffirms the fact that we are all living in the unknown but sometimes, we touched, we feel one another beyond the void of darkness but we can we still hold onto each other or will one of us let go?

Can human connection really saves us from the economic and societal alienation we all have to live under but often seperately? I would say if you haven’t seen a Catherine Breillat film Brief Crossing with its subversive almost Rohmer-Ian take on a romance David Lean type premise, its opinionated yet sympathetic characters and Breillat’s more observant style makes for a relatively accessible and engaging experience. Sure Romance and Anatomy of Hell is more daring and complex but there is also a desperation to the intimate connection of Brief Crossing that precisely reflects the artificiality of not just the system or the premise here but also certain acts either it be sex, kindness, seduction etc, ideal scandalous romance, rather it is the meaning behind them, the embrace of escape and understanding of the act even if it is fleeting and maybe in the grand scheme of things unimportant that makes it meaningful, maybe even makes you grow, even if again it is almost fantastically routine. It’s also the fact that the characters just talking, diving deeper into who they are, their desires and heartache the bandaid all the more ripped by their drunken state is even more intense and revealing then any titillation, along with that, how Breillat uses the structure and form to specifically talk about aging, sex and pressures as a woman, and the two dialogue less bookends, this is just really well arranged, at once heartbreaking because the dream inevitably ends but to have it in the first place, alien, unannounced, strange yet familiar, Brief Crossing reaffirms the fact that we are all living in the unknown but sometimes, we touched, we feel one another beyond the void of darkness but we can we still hold onto each other or will one of us let go?

Can human connection really saves us from the economic and societal alienation we all have to live under but often seperately? I would say if you haven’t seen a Catherine Breillat film Brief Crossing with its subversive almost Rohmer-Ian take on a romance David Lean type premise, its opinionated yet sympathetic characters and Breillat’s more observant style makes for a relatively accessible and engaging experience. Sure Romance and Anatomy of Hell is more daring and complex but there is also a desperation to the intimate connection of Brief Crossing that precisely reflects the artificiality of not just the system or the premise here but also certain acts either it be sex, kindness, seduction etc, ideal scandalous romance, rather it is the meaning behind them, the embrace of escape and understanding of the act even if it is fleeting and maybe in the grand scheme of things unimportant that makes it meaningful, maybe even makes you grow, even if again it is almost fantastically routine. It’s also the fact that the characters just talking, diving deeper into who they are, their desires and heartache the bandaid all the more ripped by their drunken state is even more intense and revealing then any titillation, along with that, how Breillat uses the structure and form to specifically talk about aging, sex and pressures as a woman, and the two dialogue less bookends, this is just really well arranged, at once heartbreaking because the dream inevitably ends but to have it in the first place, alien, unannounced, strange yet familiar, Brief Crossing reaffirms the fact that we are all living in the unknown but sometimes, we touched, we feel one another beyond the void of darkness but we can we still hold onto each other or will one of us let go?

Can human connection really saves us from the economic and societal alienation we all have to live under but often seperately? I would say if you haven’t seen a Catherine Breillat film Brief Crossing with its subversive almost Rohmer-Ian take on a romance David Lean type premise, its opinionated yet sympathetic characters and Breillat’s more observant style makes for a relatively accessible and engaging experience. Sure Romance and Anatomy of Hell is more daring and complex but there is also a desperation to the intimate connection of Brief Crossing that precisely reflects the artificiality of not just the system or the premise here but also certain acts either it be sex, kindness, seduction etc, ideal scandalous romance, rather it is the meaning behind them, the embrace of escape and understanding of the act even if it is fleeting and maybe in the grand scheme of things unimportant that makes it meaningful, maybe even makes you grow, even if again it is almost fantastically routine. It’s also the fact that the characters just talking, diving deeper into who they are, their desires and heartache the bandaid all the more ripped by their drunken state is even more intense and revealing then any titillation, along with that, how Breillat uses the structure and form to specifically talk about aging, sex and pressures as a woman, and the two dialogue less bookends, this is just really well arranged, at once heartbreaking because the dream inevitably ends but to have it in the first place, alien, unannounced, strange yet familiar, Brief Crossing reaffirms the fact that we are all living in the unknown but sometimes, we touched, we feel one another beyond the void of darkness but we can we still hold onto each other or will one of us let go?