‘Abuse of Weakness’ Review

Catherine Breillat is brutality’s greatest filmmaker. Romance, Fat Girl, and Anatomy of Hell are firebreathing, occasionally contemptuous works that expose violence, hypocrisy and misogyny. Yet for the last few years, she’s taken a lighter path. The Last Mistress and her two fairy tales, Bluebeard and Sleeping Beauty, share the vision of her prior films…


