Catherine Breillat (1948, Bressuire, France) is one of the most controversial and extraordinary names, not only among French woman directors but also in contemporary cinema. Pera Film, in collaboration with the 12th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels and Institut français, is presenting six films of the director under the program A Daring Woman: Catherine Breillat.
She started her writing career long before she overthrew the conformist cinema tradition which has spent almost a century with “women’s bodies offered for the voyeuristic pleasure of men”; the first novel Breillat wrote when she was 17, “L’homme facile” (Frivolous Man) was forbidden for under the age of 18, the day it was published. Breillat breaks sexuality and bodies into pieces under the pressure of the desire/pleasure dichotomy. She ends the enviable romantic love, the spectacular aspect of women’s sexuality, she runs over the established moral rules with her close-ups deconstructing real pornographic films and editing, sometimes blurring the vision, at other times turning the stomach. She experiments with the most interesting methods in constructing her cinematic language.
Catherine Breillat, who covers all kinds of “gender trouble”, smashes down taboos and traditions by putting an end to women’s sexuality as a visually pleasing object and her tough, startling cinema language, is admired by some and not appreciated by others. As she pushes the limits of cinema, her art becomes a good example of how daring choices and actions can be articulated into a creative adventure without rules and limits.
Screenings can be seen with a discounted museum ticket (5 TL). No reservations taken.
Advisory warning: Suitable for adult audiences only. Contains scenes of nudity and violence which some audiences may find disturbing.
In collaboration
March 15
15:30 Sleeping Beauty
17:30 Romance X
March 16
15:30 Blue Beard
March 18
19:30 Anatomy of Hell
March 19
17:30 Sleeping Beauty
19:30 Blue Beard
March 20
19:30 Romance X
March 21
19:30 The Last Mistress
March 22
15:30 Anatomy of Hell
19:30 Abuse of Weakness
March 23
15:30 The Last Mistress
17:30 Abuse of Weakness
March 15
15:30 Sleeping Beauty
17:30 Romance X
March 16
15:30 Blue Beard
March 18
19:30 Anatomy of Hell
March 19
17:30 Sleeping Beauty
19:30 Blue Beard
March 20
19:30 Romance X
March 21
19:30 The Last Mistress
March 22
15:30 Anatomy of Hell
19:30 Abuse of Weakness
March 23
15:30 The Last Mistress
17:30 Abuse of Weakness
Program Trailer
The exhibition Look at Me! Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection examines portraiture, one of the oldest artistic genres, through a significant number of works of our times. Through the exhibition we will be sharing about the artists and sections in Look At Me!. This time we are sharing about Janine Antoni , exhibited under the section “The Conventions of Identitiy”!
Men were the first nudes in Turkish painting. The majority of these paintings were academic studies executed in oil paint; they were part of the education of artists that had finally attained the opportunity to work from the live model. The gender of the models constituted an obstacle in the way of characterizing these paintings as ‘nudes’.
Organized in collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation, Paris, the exhibition explores Giacometti’s prolific life, most of which the artist led in his studio in Montparnasse, through the works of his early period as well his late work, including one unfinished piece. Devoted to Giacometti’s early works, the first part of the exhibition demonstrates the influence of Giovanni Giacometti, the father of the artist and a Swiss Post-Impressionist painter himself, on Giacometti’s output during these years and his role in his son’s development.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
