It wasn’t until 1996 when Parfait Amour, her fifth feature film, was released that critics finally lauded Catherine Breillat. The foundation for her magnum opus seems to have sprung from her first novel, L’Homme Facile, written in the riled voice of a young woman subjugated by a man’s fantasies. In this and other stories, Breillat's theory of the sexes treads along a narrative of defiance and challenge, but does not abnegate sexual taboos--at times, she even accepts them.