colleen kelsey, Author at cléo https://cleojournal.com/author/ckelsey/ a journal of film and feminism Thu, 02 Mar 2017 03:11:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 “I knew I had to stop, but I didn’t care”: Catherine Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness https://cleojournal.com/2016/04/18/i-knew-i-had-to-stop-but-i-didnt-care-catherine-breillats-abuse-of-weakness/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:31:33 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=1533 For those accustomed to defining their personhood solely in relation to the mind, a rupture in the body can come as an indelible shock. Such is the devastation that opens Catherine Breillat’s 2014 film Abuse of Weakness. In a composed overhead shot that begins with a painterly expanse of abstracted white forms, Breillat widens our […]

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]]> The Bourgeois Out for Blood: Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger https://cleojournal.com/2015/11/24/the-bourgeois-out-for-blood-catherine-deneuve-in-the-hunger/ Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:38:12 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=1429 “For me there are two things: action and reflection. And I find that I’m more into action.” – Catherine Deneuve Female vampire mythology has long traded on erotics and unquenchable sexuality. From Theda Bara’s kohl-eyed, fangless silent movie-era “vamps,” to the bayou night-dwellers of True Blood, these creatures embody a lethal exceptionalism. Freed from the […]

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