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6 days ago · Anne may be bored with Pierre; she may be drawn to Théo’s youth, his charming curls, his fragile insolence, willowy body and vulnerability. ... Maren Louise Käehne, May el-Toukhy. Stars Léa ...
5 days ago · Perhaps it helps that the movie is adapted from “Queen of Hearts,” from 2019, by the Danish director May el-Toukhy. “Last Summer” is Breillat’s first film since 2013. In 2004, she had a ...
2 days ago · The film is a remake of May el-Toukhy’s 2019 Danish drama Queen of Hearts, featuring a nearly identical script up until the ending – an extreme divergence.Producer Saïd Ben Saïd bought the ...
5 days ago · Last Summer is a close remake of May el-Toukhy’s 2019 film Queen of Hearts, where a successful lawyer begins an affair with her stepson. Anne (a fantastic Léa Drucker) gradually discovers attraction and love anew with Théo (Samuel Kircher, cherubic and cruel at once, like all Breillat-penned men) and has to keep the secret from her husband ...
4 days ago · In 2019, May el-Toukhy's Queen of Hearts was a study about power imbalances and masterful manipulation. As a wealthy lawyer who starts an affair with her teenage stepson, Trine Dyrholm embodied a sickening conundrum - someone who defends the abused in the public eye but is an abuser in private.
Jun 25, 2024 · May el-Toukhy’s “Queen of Hearts” spun that stark hypocrisy into a melodrama ridden with shame and secret darkness. Breillat’s “ Last Summer ” is much lighter in every way, and all the more revealing as a result; it leverages the same premise into a rich exploration of the inadequate judgment such a premise exists to invite.
Jun 26, 2024 · When Breillat’s Last Summer premiered in Cannes last year, several years had passed since her previous feature, Abuse of Weakness (2013). Producer Saïd Ben Saïd had approached her with the idea of adapting May el-Toukhy’s Queen of Hearts (2019), the story of an affair between a middle-aged lawyer and her teenage stepson.
