Tapage nocturne

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The filmmaker Solange has a young daughter and a husband with whom she sleeps with from time to time. But that's neither enough for a film nor a life. Solange wants more: she has an affair with Jim, a bisexual actor. But Jim is not the only one. Sometimes she needs two or three affairs even in one single night. It is on her sexual odyssey that she encounters Bruno, who seems immune to her arts of seduction and whose little humiliations inflame a heated passion within her. Their rendez-vous' follow strict rules. In their role-playing games they are not allowed to mention love verbally, nor may it arise as a feeling. This is how Solange and Bruno (also a film director) succeed in living their dream: night after night they meet as if for the very first time. While exploring the limits of her own desire, the experience makes Solange sexually and emotionally dependent. TAPAGE NOCTURNE as was Breillats first film, UNE VRAIE JEUNE FILLE (1976) is based on her novel.

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  • Runtime

    94 min
  • Country

    France
  • Year of Presentation

    2009
  • Year of Production

    1979
  • Director

    Cathérine Breillat
  • Cast

    Dominique Laffin, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Bertrand Bonvoisin, Joe Dallesandro, Dominique Basquin, Daniel Langlet, Bruno Devoldère, Bruno Grimaldi, Georges Mansart, Pascal Tristant, Maud Rayer, Hubert Drac, Annie Charrier, Gérard Lanvin, Madeleine Gelati, Norma Giulicchi, Anouk Grinberg
  • Production Company

    Axe Films / French Productions
  • Berlinale Section

    Special
  • Berlinale Category

    Feature Film

Biography Cathérine Breillat

Catherine Breillat is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender trouble and sibling rivalry. Accused of being a "porno auteuriste", Breillat allowed for an unbiased view of sexuality and extended the language of mainstream movies. She is also a best-selling novelist and wrote her first novel, L'Homme Facile, at the age of 17. Breillat acted in Bernardo Bertolucci's El último tango en París (1972) and wrote the screenplay for Maurice Pialat's movie Der Bulle von Paris (1985) . Since her first own film Une vraie jeune fille (1976), which was released 23 years after its shooting, Breillat explored critically as well as in an innovative way the perceptions imposed on female sexuality, related family and coming of age issues.

Filmography Cathérine Breillat

1992 La nuit de l'océan | 1996 Eine perfekte Liebe | 2001 Mi hermana virgen | 2002 Sex Is Comedy