I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet

A long-form dialogue—on cinema and survival—with the visionary French filmmaker.

The virtuous always engage in a pseudoreligious morality. But there’s one thing they never say: the desire for pleasure is thought in motion. It’s what makes you transfigure a dull and repetitive sexual act into something that can bring you to ecstasy and an idea of eternity ...
—Catherine Breillat to Murielle Joudet

Catherine Breillat has always told just one story: her own, the story of a young girl whose exist...