LAST SUMMER | L'ÉTÉ DERNIER

Francophonie Night
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FRANCE | 2023 | COLOR | DCP | 104’ | FRENCH

Anne is a successful lawyer, living with her hus- band and their two daughters. When her husband’s 17-year-old son from a previous marriage moves in with them, Anne starts a fiery affair with him endangering her career and her family life. Revisiting 2019’s acclaimed Danish film, ‘Queen of Hearts’, Catherine Breillat strikes again with her best film in ages. The ideal acting ensemble helps her unravel sardonically the already scandalous story, disorienting audience expectations, subverting the characters’ balance of power and violently rupturing the French bourgeoisie illusion of happiness. Nominated for the Palme d’ Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Th.P.

DIRECTOR: Catherine Breillat
SCREENWRITERS: Catherine Breillat, Pascal Bonitzer
DoP: Jeanne Lapoirie
MUSIC: Kim Gordon, Body/Head
EDITOR: François Quiqueré
PRINCIPAL CAST: Léa Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, Samuel Kircher, Clotilde Courau, Serena Hu, Angela Chen

CATHERINE BREILLAT
French filmmaker, best-selling author and professor, born in 1948. She studied Acting, at 17 published her first novel (which the French government banned for the under-18…) and her first role was in Bertolucci’s ‘Last Tango in Paris’. In her own concept of ‘cinema du corps’ she recognizes David Cronenberg as kindred auteur.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
2023 Last Summer
2013 Abuse of Weakness
2010 Sleeping Beauty
2009 Bluebeard
2007 The Last Mistress
2004 Anatomy of Hell
2002 Sex Is Comedy
2001 Brief Crossing
2001 Fat Girl
1999 Romance
1996 Perfect Love
1988 Virgin
1976 A Real Young Girl
1975 Catherine & Co.