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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.

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

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   Jun 26, 2024 · The controversial French filmmaker’s Last Summer depicts a steamy affair between a middle-aged woman and her husband’s 17-year-old son from a previous marriage. She explains why she’s not a provocateur—and why she doesn’t need an intimacy coordinator.

4. 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.

5. www.filmcomment.com › blog › interview-catherineInterview: Catherine Breillat on Last Summer - Film Comment

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   Oct 13, 2023 · An adaptation of the 2019 film Queen of Hearts, by the Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy, Breillat’s long-awaited return engages anew with the filmmaker’s perennial fixations: the friction between marital love and carnal desire, the rejection of victimhood, and the expression of a sexual freedom that disavows the strictures of propriety.

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   Jun 27, 2024 · It’s been a long decade’s wait since Catherine Breillat’s last feature, the semi-autobiographical Abuse of Weakness with Isabelle Huppert, but Last Summer shows the uncompromising French filmmaker in top form, at once fierce and precise.

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     ‘Last Summer’ Review: Catherine Breillat’s Devastating Drama Exposes Bourgeois Amorality [Cannes]

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   Jun 28, 2024 · 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 ...

9. www.indiewire.com › features › interviewsLast Summer Director Catherine Breillat on That Erotic Kiss

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   Jun 29, 2024 · Catherine Breillat Found Inspiration in a ‘State of Terror’ Making ‘Last Summer’. The provocative French auteur tells IndieWire how she finds meaning beyond the script in her approach to both...

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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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    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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    Why is Breillat so powerful?

    • Breillat’s avoidance of conventional coverage is central to her films’ power; they engage the viewer on a deeper level than more traditionally shot movies because the audience is always leaning in with intensified attentiveness to try to decipher the visual codes we’re being given.

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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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    Why do young people like 'last summer' so much?

    • Younger viewers seem especially drawn to “Last Summer” because, in our modern era, sex has basically disappeared from movies. This same youth is the one that otherwise has only access to anonymous pornography, which is a very different register and one in which the spectator is completely outside in a voyeuristic [way].

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

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    What does Breillat teach Théo about lust?

    • Towards the end, Breillat is bracingly honest about the way lust can be a kind of initiation: Anne teaches Théo that hurt is a thing to acquire, like a badge, and then, tragically, sometimes ruthlessly, to pass down.

    Last Summer review: Breillat’s most heartbreaking film

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