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  • But the decision to warn off the right-wing American provocatrix with high-minded hints about hate-crime prosecution, as the school's provost tried to do last week, has turned out be even more troublesome.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Allemang 2010

  • French provocatrix Catherine Breillat returns with a perverse tale of two sisters, a lovable ogre and a knife

    Politics Andrew O'Hehir 2010

  • French provocatrix Catherine Breillat returns with a perverse tale of two sisters, a lovable ogre and a knife

    Politics By Andrew O'Hehir 2010

  • But the decision to warn off the right-wing American provocatrix with high-minded hints about hate-crime prosecution, as the school's provost tried to do last week, has turned out be even more troublesome.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Allemang 2010

  • Given the gruesome, erotic and sadomasochistic elements of the tale, "Bluebeard" seems like natural material for Catherine Breillat, the much-loved and much-hated French provocatrix who made her reputation a decade ago with films like the borderline pornographic

    Politics Andrew O'Hehir 2010

  • French provocatrix Catherine Breillat returns with a perverse tale of two sisters, a lovable ogre and a knife

    Politics Andrew O'Hehir 2010

  • French provocatrix Catherine Breillat returns with a perverse tale of two sisters, a lovable ogre and a knife

    Politics Nan Strauss 2010

  • Given the gruesome, erotic and sadomasochistic elements of the tale, "Bluebeard" seems like natural material for Catherine Breillat, the much-loved and much-hated French provocatrix who made her reputation a decade ago with films like the borderline pornographic

    Politics By Andrew O'Hehir 2010

  • Given the gruesome, erotic and sadomasochistic elements of the tale, "Bluebeard" seems like natural material for Catherine Breillat, the much-loved and much-hated French provocatrix who made her reputation a decade ago with films like the borderline pornographic

    Politics Andrew O'Hehir 2010

  • "Having made her reputation as a sexual provocatrix with

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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