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1. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › last-summer-filmLast Summer movie review & film summary (2024) - Roger Ebert

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   Jun 28, 2024 · “Last Summer” is a remake of the 2019 Danish film “Queen of Hearts,” but Breillat makes the material her own in her signature, uncompromising manner. Once this incest-adjacent affair is on the verge of being exposed, the tension changes; the slow buildup of whether they’ll get caught shifts to the intensity of the potential damage to ...

2. www.bfi.org.uk › sight-and-sound › reviewsLast Summer review: Breillat’s most heartbreaking film

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   Apr 19, 2024 · Last Summer: Catherine Breillat’s most heartbreaking film to date. Catherine Breillat’s remake of the Danish film Queen of Hearts plays with ideas of attraction, repulsion and self-delusion through Anne (Léa Drucker), a middle-aged lawyer who finds herself inappropriately drawn to her teenage stepson. 19 April 2024.

3. www.nytimes.com › 2024/06/27 › movies‘Last Summer’ Review: A Shocking Affair to Remember

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   Jun 27, 2024 · Critic’s Pick. ‘Last Summer’ Review: A Shocking Affair to Remember. Few directors get as deeply under the skin as Catherine Breillat, a longtime provocateur who tests the limits of what the...

4. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › movies'Last Summer' review: A messy, honest, illicit relationship ...

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   Jun 28, 2024 · There’s no defending what Anne, a successful lawyer and mother, does when she begins an affair with her 17-year-old stepson, Théo, in the incandescent French drama “Last Summer.”

5. www.seattletimes.com › entertainment › movies‘Last Summer’ review: A gripping psychosexual triangle

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   Aug 5, 2024 · “Last Summer” is a pretty faithful adaptation of the 2019 film “Queen of Hearts,” directed and co-written by Danish Egyptian filmmaker May el-Toukhy.

6. www.rogerebert.com › interviews › catherine-breillatCatherine Breillat Wants You to Think About (Movie) Sex ...

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   Jun 26, 2024 · Based on the recent Danish film “Queen of Hearts,” “Last Summer” opens in select theaters this weekend, providing this warm-weather season with its sexiest, most thoughtful examination of commitment, aging, and regret. Breillat was eager to discuss her film’s sensual pleasures when I interviewed her via Zoom earlier this week.

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   Is 'last summer' a good movie?

   • “Last Summer” is complex, tricky, at times very uncomfortable and thoroughly engrossing. Part of what makes the movie enthralling, at least in its first squirmy half, is the spectacle of watching a character rush into a morally abject, altogether questionable and seemingly obvious disaster; it’s like watching a slow-moving car crash.

   ‘Last Summer’ Review: A Shocking Affair to Remember

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   Is last summer a romantic drama?

   • One would be hard-pressed, however, to call Last Summer a romantic drama, so weirdly predatory is the sensual ardour of the mature woman at its centre, whose slippery sexual attraction, with the contradictory impulses of fusion and repulsion, soul-baring and self-delusion, make Last Summer Breillat’s most heartbreaking film to date.

   Last Summer review: Breillat’s most heartbreaking film

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   Is last summer a remake of Queen of Hearts?

   • Read her answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. Last Summer is a remake of the 2019 Danish film Queen of Hearts, but Breillat makes the material her own in her signature, uncompromising manner.

   Last Summer movie review & film summary (2024) - Roger Ebert

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   What is 'last summer' about?

   • The suspenseful, elegantly destabilizing “Last Summer” concerns a defense attorney, her businessman husband, her husband’s teenaged son from an earlier marriage — and a particularly dangerous corner of sensual recklessness, price unknown.

   ‘Last Summer’ review: A gripping psychosexual triangle

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   What happens when 'Last Summer' opens?

   • When “Last Summer" opens, Théo is living with his mother and has just been arrested. Pierre has decided to bring his son back home with him, a decision he explains to Anne while the couple are in their bedroom, an intimate setting that is as meaningful as it is banal.

   ‘Last Summer’ Review: A Shocking Affair to Remember

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   Was 'last summer' too provocative?

   • When “Last Summer” premiered at Cannes in 2023, some critics seemed disappointed that the film wasn’t as overtly provocative as your previous work. Did that reaction surprise you? I’ve never been a provocateur. I’ve never made a scandal—I am a scandal, which is to say I’m an innocent scandal.

   Catherine Breillat Wants You to Think About (Movie) Sex Differently

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8. www.wsj.com › arts-culture › film‘Last Summer’ Review: Catherine Breillat’s Chilling Return

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   Jun 27, 2024 · “Last Summer,” her first new film in a decade, doesn’t push toward such extremes, but it proves that Ms. Breillat remains committed to prodding at social taboos and the lurking dangers of ...