Classification, the latest effort from French filmmaker Catherine Breillat , opens with a teenage girl receiving legal counsel after being sexually assaulted, telling her lawyer through tears the number of people she slept with that year.
The French-language film follows Anne, her husband Pierre , and their two adopted daughters, as Pierre’s troubled teenage son from a previous marriage, Théo , comes to live with them. Théo’s antics go largely unnoticed by Pierre, a nondescript businessman seldom seen at home.
She repeatedly separates herself from the chaff – “Normopaths bore me,” she tells Pierre – which might clarify why she pines after a thorny, tattooed juvenile.