''Brief Crossing'' () is a French film released in 2001 and directed by

Catherine Breillat Catherine Breillat (; born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School. Life and career Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort. She decided to becom ...

. It stars Sarah Pratt and

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Plot

The movie explores the viewpoints of two people at different stages in their lives and their attitudes toward sex and relationships. A virgin teenage boy with an eager, optimistic view of sex and an older woman who holds a bitter view of relationships meet on a ferry from France to

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. She tells him she has just left her husband. They talk and become physically and emotionally intimate. At the end of the crossing, the boy sees the woman get into a car with her husband and children and realizes he has been lied to.

Production

was 18 at the time of filming, but still a virgin according to the director

. In his sex scene with Sarah Pratt, Breillat told her head cameraman that all the sequence had to be filmed once, there had to be no repetition, because what would happen the first time would be "something really upsetting".

References

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* 2001 drama films 2001 films Films directed by Catherine Breillat French drama films 2000s French films 2000s French-language films Films with screenplays by Catherine Breillat {{2000s-France-film-stub