Last Summer
After a decade-long absence, Catherine Breillat triumphantly returns with an exploration of the themes that have made her one of cinema’s most rousing and controversial directors: the ecstasies and wounds of sexuality, and its power to unsettle. A remarkably inscrutable Léa Drucker plays Anne—an attorney advocating for abused minors—who enjoys an enviable lifestyle with her husband, Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin), a milquetoast businessman and ineffectual father to Théo (newcomer Samuel Kircher), his troubled teenage son from a previous marriage. Compelled by her stepson’s Apollonian beauty, Anne embarks on an affair that threatens the stability of her household, along with her professional integrity, as she faces a choice between accountability and deception. Original music by Kim Gordon and radiantly expressionist cinematography by Jeanne Lapoirie heighten the erotic and ethical tensions of Last Summer, Breillat’s latest foray into the outer limits of desire.
Janus Contemporaries releases Blu-ray and DVD editions of first-run films, fresh from theaters, in association with the Criterion Channel.
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Catherine Breillat
- Trailer
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Catherine Breillat
- Trailer
Cast
- Léa Drucker
- Anne
- Samuel Kircher
- Théo
- Olivier Rabourdin
- Pierre
- Clotilde Courau
- Mina
- Serena Hu
- Serena
- Angela Chen
- Angela
Credits
- Director
- Catherine Breillat
- Produced by
- Saïd Ben Saïd
- Associate producer
- Kevin Chneiweiss
- Executive producer
- René Ezra
- Executive producer
- Clifford Werber
- Script and dialogues
- Catherine Breillat
- With the collaboration of
- Pascal Bonitzer
- Based on the film Queen of Hearts, written by
- Maren Louise Kaëhne
- Based on the film Queen of Hearts, written by
- May el-Toukhy
- Based on the film Queen of Hearts, directed by
- May el-Toukhy
- Image
- Jeanne Lapoirie
- Editing
- François Quiqueré
- First assistant director
- Gabrièle Roux
- Sound
- Damien Luquet
- Sound
- Loïc Prian
- Sound
- Katia Boutin
- Sound
- Cyril Holtz
- Costumes
- Khadija Zeggaï
- Production design
- Sébastien Danos
- Makeup
- Delphine Jaffart
- Hair
- Antonia Silberti
- Unit production manager
- Laziz Belkaï
- Postproduction director
- Christine Duchier
- Music collaboration
- Kim Gordon
Trailer for Last Summer
