LOADING
Directed by Catherine Breillat | 86 minutes | 18+ | 25th Anniversary |
3:00pm Saturday, 16 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 3 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Catherine Breillat's confronting Cannes-Award-winning cruel summer anti-romance will stay with you long beyond the credits
Co-Presented by Rough Cut
Anaïs carries the weight of the world on her 12-year-old shoulders. Her body is both a temple of pain and a fortress. Hunched in defense or plain ignored, she observes. It is summer. The beach. Family vacation. New romance. Initiation, therefore, and first love. Immured in the chrysalis of her weight, Anaïs undergoes this rite of passage by proxy, observing her beloved (and hated) older sister, her chimerical alter ego, as she begins to experience her own sexual awakening.
A unique and confronting coming-of-age tale from essential modern provocateur, Catherine Breillat, A ma soeur! shocked and awed in equal measure upon release, bursting the director onto the global stage and earning her the French Culture Award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Revered for its social critique and darkly effective performances from its two leading women, the film is a must-see for all interested in the sharp edges of contemporary art cinema.
Screens with Barbie (2025)
SIMILAR: A Real Young Girl, My Mother (2004), The Piano Teacher
"A caustic and brutal film that assaults preconceptions of love and seduction in the most Brechtian and painful of ways." -
Rembrandt Q Pumpernickel, Letterboxd
"something radically different than mainstream ideas about feminism" - José Sarmiento-Hinojosa, Senses of Cinema
CONTENT WARNING: Sexual violence
Country: France
Year: 2001
Language: English, French, Italian