Little Ayatollahs
Anahid Nersessian: On Catherine Breillat, 13 August 2026
I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet
by Catherine Breillat, translated by Christine Pichini.
Semiotext(e), 224 pp., £16.99, October 2025,978 1 63590 261 7 Show More
by Catherine Breillat, translated by Christine Pichini.
Semiotext(e), 224 pp., £16.99, October 2025,
“... In the final minutes of Catherine Breillat’s film Fat Girl (2001), a man breaks the windshield of a car with an axe. Inside are a woman and her two young daughters, Elena and Anaïs; they have pulled over to sleep. Elena is killed by a single blow to the head and her mother is strangled. Anaïs, who watches the murders with unsettling detachment, her fear betrayed only by the urine running down her legs, is taken to some nearby woods, where the man throws her on the ground and pulls up her dress ... ”
