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Catherine Breillat

“When I shoot a film, I always project myself into one of the characters, at once into either a man or a woman...”

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    THE SKIN

    LILIANA CAVANI France, 1981

    Starring Burt Lancaster and Marcello Mastroianni, this past Palme d’Or contender is set in post-fascist Naples, where food prices are inflated but women’s bodies come cheap. War is often erotic in Liliana Cavani’s films—and here its economically, politically fraught aftermath plays out sexually too.

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