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Feminist Halloween, Day 18: Breathe (Respire)

Posted in Feminist Halloween, Gender, tagged , , , on 2015/10/18| 1 Comment »

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[Image: Charlie and Sarah study together at school.]
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I caught Breathe (Respire) (2014) at the SIFF earlier in the month. Marketed at SIFF as a dramatic thriller, Breathe is a French film directed by actress and director Mélanie Laurent and based on the novel by Anne-Sophie Brasme. It’s perhaps the strangest of the films I’m reviewing this October because it’s not really clear it’s a horror film until the final 5 minutes.

This review includes some mild spoilers in the first part, and bigger spoilers in the second half and content notes.

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