It is with a topical theme that French director Catherine Breilla returns to cinema ten years after her last film and a stroke that almost put an end to her career. remake Dronningendirected in 2019 by Danish director May el-Touhy, Last summer chronicles the incestuous relationship between Anna (Leah Drucker), who is in her forties, and Theo (Samuel Kircher), her 17-year-old stepson.
The fact that she is a lawyer who specializes in child sexual abuse is both ironic and instructive. Contrary to laws, contrary to social conventions, contrary to love for her husband (Olivier Rabourdin), this woman is not able to resist the impulses that a teenager awakens in her.
No moral judgment
From real girl in 1975 to Recognition of weakness In 2013, the entire filmography of Catherine Breilla has always been about female sexuality with an unsurpassed combination of black humor and cruelty. Last summer in vain to be imagined by another, it is a drama that contains all his obsessions.
Don’t count on her to make a moral judgment on her character. Anna appears before us as a responsible and fulfilled woman, suddenly seized with an erotic passion, which the director intends to tell us in all its purest truth. Example? Those sex scenes where his camera stays focused on Leah Drucker’s face to orgasm.
Complicated and ambiguous to the end, this is a cautionary tale that questions the themes that have been at the heart of news since the birth of the #MeToo movement and the publication in France of a book like agreement Vanessa Springora. But the director refuses to approach them Manichaean, leaving the viewer to form their own opinion. At the end of the press preview this Thursday evening, opinion was divided…
Last summer’s #Breillat is the masterpiece we’ve been waiting for more in #Cannes2023. Hot film, almost dangerous. Dizziness. — lily bloom (@lilybloom2) May 25, 2023
Written with the finesse of Bruno Lemaire, as idiotic as the most idiotic of Sophie Davant’s shows, Last Summer is one of the worst entries in the competition. A sloppy topic, strawberry dialogues that the actors hardly read seriously, nothing comes of it. #Cannes2023 pic.twitter.com/IQS4upOZPg — Martin S. (@MartinsDayOff) May 25, 2023
To give you an opinion on Last summer it will have to wait a bit in theaters, as it is scheduled for release on September 23rd. It is preceded by the smell of scandal, that’s for sure. And maybe the price of the Croisette? Answer on Saturday evening during the announcement of the list of prizes by the jury chaired by the Swedish director Ruben Östlund.
>> Last summer Catherine Breya. Lea Drucker, Samuel Kirscher, Olivier Rabourdin. 1h45. In theaters September 23
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