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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. Returning to a favored subject—the desires and power dynamics in affairs between adolescents and usually much older adults—Breillat brings in another taboo this time: the messy sexual obsession between a lawyer, Anne (Léa Drucker), and her 17-year ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Few filmmakers can rival Catherine Breillat’s origin story; by all accounts, the director who would later refer to herself as “the pariah of French cinema” emerged fully formed from her ...
Jun 28, 2024 · Léa Drucker and Samuel Kircher in the movie “Last Summer,” directed by Catherine Breillat. There’s no defending what Anne, a successful lawyer and mother, does when she begins an affair ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Catherine Breillat's latest film stars Lea Drucker. Shelagh Rowan-Legg. Editor, Canada; Montréal, Canada Tweet Post Submit. While it's unusual for an auteur like Catherine Breillat to remake ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Catherine Breillat – Une vraie jeune fille AKA A Real Young Girl (1976) Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents’ house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality. The story centres on Alice ...
Jun 29, 2024 · Catherine Breillat Found Inspiration in a ‘State of Terror’ Making ‘Last Summer’. From her controversial 1976 directorial debut “A Real Young Girl” to even more confrontational later works like “Romance” (1999) and “Anatomy of Hell” (2004), French auteur Catherine Breillat has long been one of the cinema’s premier ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Catherine Breillat’s new film, Last Summer, (Sideshow and Janus Films) opens in theaters on June 28, with sneak screenings starting June 26. With her first film in a decade, the fearless 75-year-old French auteur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, The Last Mistress) proves she’s as provocative as ever with her Cannes-stirring film, which drives down the dark road of uncontrollable passion.
