LAST SUMMER
One of the world’s most consistently provocative filmmakers,
Catherine Breillat proves with her
incendiary new drama that she is not through toying with viewers’ comfort
levels. In Last Summer, Léa
Drucker stars as Anne, a lawyer seemingly happily married to kind-hearted
businessman Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin),
Anne inexplicably finds herself drawn to Pierre’s estranged 17-year-old son
Théo (Samuel Kircher) after he
returns home to live with them. Embarking on a passionate affair with the
teenager, Anne all too willingly thrusts herself into a maelstrom of
attraction, intimidation, and manipulation. (France, 2023, 104 mins, French | Dir. Catherine Breillat)