Catherine Breillat e Georges Bataille: o ritual do impossível

Abstract

This paper sets out comparisons, differences and affinities between the works by Catherine Breillat, the movie maker, and by Georges Bataille, the philosopher. As authors who were born in different times and engaged themselves in different areas of knowledge, Breillat s thoughts are expressed through motion picture and those of Bataille in the form of writing. This is the reason why the dialogue implied in this paper has a thematic background. The privilege of both authors´ erotic view is used here as the central axis, starting from Bataille s idea that the sense of eroticism is the fusion, the suppression of limits. However, though both see the union of the bodies as corresponding to a violation of the identities, the presence of the female character in Breillat s films permeates such conception with a certain rare complexity concerning gender and love. The analysis of such particulars opens up the possibility of marking out not only strong points in common, but also significant distinctions between the two eroticisms