"Here is the comeback we’ve been wanting from Breillat: confronts the complicated, impulsive and all-too-often-regrettable choices humans make when desire takes control." - Peter Debruge, Variety
"By Breillat’s standards, this is an unprecedentedly sleek commercial play, alluring and grabby — yet with an innate, considered nastiness, an unspoken intellectualisation of our least explicable instincts, that never feels compromised." - Guy Lodge, Film of the Week
With her first film in a decade, the fearless French auteur Catherine Breillat (FAT GIRL) proves she’s as provocative as ever with her Cannes-stirring LAST SUMMER, which boldly surveys power dynamics, female desire, and fulfillment. A nuanced, radiant Léa Drucker plays Anne, an attorney who has plateaued in her marriage to Pierre, a distracted businessman. His troubled, teenaged son Theo (Samuel Kircher), from a previous marriage, has recently returned to Pierre’s ineffectual and despondent care. When Pierre leaves town for a business trip, Anne and Théo find themselves in the throes of an unexpected and dangerous affair, threatening the stability of the household. Film Center exclusive.
Awards & Nominations
Nominee - Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival
Nominee - Best Actress (Léa Drucker), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay,, Most Promising Actor (Samuel Kircher), César Awards
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