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Jun 27, 2024 · ‘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 world thinks women...
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 ...
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.
Aug 5, 2024 · “Last Summer” is a work of artfully sustained sexual suspense, with “when will it start?” morphing into “how long can it remain secret?” and then something else.
Jun 28, 2024 · Review: In ‘Last Summer,’ an illicit relationship takes root in all its messy provocation. Léa Drucker and Samuel Kircher in the movie “Last Summer,” directed by Catherine Breillat ...
Oct 31, 2023 · If you need a film with controversial or taboo subject matter to contort itself in order to express negative judgement on the fictional characters’ behaviour, Last Summer may not be for you. But it may not just be French provocateur Catherine Breillat’s newest film that you find affronting—she’s made a career of shocking narratives of ...
Jul 30, 2024 · Breillat has flirted with experimentalism, but truly found her footing as a pure dramatist, evidenced by 2014’s solid Abuse of Weakness and now, the fascinating modernized Rohmer subversion Last Summer.
