Brève Traversée (2001)

Brève traversée / Brief crossing - by Catherine Breillat (2001)

Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip. Filming a guy's "first time", filming him like a girl. Gut level skin deep… Nostalgia for vast ocean liners, for places "beyond the law" where you can venture outside of life, safe within an interlude.