Part Two

Yannick Bellon is one of the greatest French filmmakers of the twentieth century, yet owing to her fierce independence and singular voice, remains underknown in comparison to her contemporaries. With this retrospective, the most comprehensive ever staged in the United States, Bellon’s exposure and reputation should deservedly begin to be appreciated as the major artist she is.

Over a sixty-year career, Bellon collaborated with stars like Bulle Ogier, Marlène Jobert, and amateur actors, creating both shorts and features, narratives and documentaries, and work for television and cinema. Each work is as extraordinary as the last.

Through her production company, Les Films de l’Équinoxe, Bellon wrote, directed and produced her own work, tackling subjects with predominantly female characters that few, if any, fellow filmmakers attempted to present. Bellon worked outside any dominant movements such as the New Wave, and remained uncompromising in her vision and true to her art.

Naked Love

L’Amour nu

The story of a woman afflicted with a sudden and potentially terminal breast cancer diagnosis, which Bellon uses as a pretext to explore the possibility of happiness-particularly romantic-under dire and confusing circumstances. To endure it with dignity and moral strength is, in Bellon’s view, to truly exist.

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