A ma Soeur!

"To drive a small car in a highway full of trucks." Carol Grant on Letterboxd



French director Catherine Breillat is no stranger to words like scandal and breaking taboos. À MA SOEUR! is one of her best-known and most radical films, which depicts the most disgusting facets of patriarchy without embellishment. Not for the faint-hearted!

When a family holiday turns into horror: Anaïs and her older sister Elena (Anaïs Reboux & Roxane Mesquida) have to share a room. The younger sister is forced into the role of observer when Elena, who is also still a minor, secretly has her first sexual experience with a much older tourist. However, these are marked by ever-increasing assaults on his part, which only serves to foreshadow one of the most radical film endings of the 2000s...