Last Summer (2024)
Director: Catherine Breillat Run Time: 104 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023
Starring: Clotilde Courau, Léa Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, Samuel Kircher, Serena Hu
Country: France, Norway
Language: French
About the film:
World Premiere, 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Anne, a brilliant lawyer, lives in perfect harmony with her husband Pierre and their six and eight-year-old daughters, in a house on the heights of Paris. One day, Théo, 17, Pierre’s son from a previous marriage, moves in with them. Anne is troubled by Théo and gradually engages in a passionate relationship with him, putting her career and family life in danger.
“A drama expertly modulated to raise both eyebrows and pulse rates, led by a superb Léa Drucker performance that’s rooted in uncontrollable self-destructive passions and intense self-preservation instincts.”
—Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
About the filmmaker:
Catherine Breillat is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender trouble, and sibling rivalry. Accused of being a “porno auteuriste,” Breillat allowed for an unbiased view of sexuality and extended the language of mainstream movies. She is also a best-selling novelist and wrote her first novel, L’Homme Facile, at the age of 17. Breillat acted in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972) and wrote the screenplay for Maurice Pialat’s movie Police (1985). Since her own directorial debut A Real Young Girl (1976), which was released 23 years after its shooting, Breillat has uniquely explored the perceptions imposed on female sexuality, as well as related family and coming of age issues. Her newest film, Last Summer (2024) premiered In Competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and earned César Award nominations for Best Director and Adapted Screenplay.
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