Project 3

So I think I've hit on the theme I want to carry through my poster for Project 3: the ocean. But not fun, sunny, happy beach times. Think cold, gray, windy. It's a recurring element in several of Breillat's films. Sex is Comedy opens with a pair of young actors flubbing a love scene on a beach in winter under their tyrannical director's gaze. In Fat Girl, the younger, overweight, tagalong sister, Anais, drearily lounges on the beach while her sister frolics in the distance with her new boyfriend. Brief Crossing centers on an awkward romantic encounter between mismatched strangers on a ferry crossing the English Channel. But always, the water is chilly and uninviting--words that could also describe this director's portrayal of love and sex.