director choice: Catherine Breillat

For project 3, I'm using a French director, Catherine Breillat, who makes strange, dark films about love and sex. Front-runners for movie choices: Romance (1999), Fat Girl (2001), and Sex Is Comedy (2002). The critical response to her work is pretty mixed, and I don't unreservedly love it myself, but it does interest me. Some of it gets pretty steamy (such as Romance, which explores a young woman's sexual adventures after her narcissistic model boyfriend stops sleeping with her). Some of it is drier and funnier and almost anti-erotic (such as Sex Is Comedy, which focuses on a film director's frustration with her uncooperative actors as they keep botching a pivotal love scene).

So the poster presents a challenge--broadly speaking, sex and the body are the common themes I'm working with, but I definitely don't want the poster to come across as overtly sexy. Suggestive, sure, but it shouldn't scream "sex." I think using illustrations instead of photographs might help with that.