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Last Summer 18 rating

French cinema’s great provocateur Catherine Breillat returns with a sharp and cruel tale of seduction and manipulation in a bourgeois household.

Drama 2023 104 mins

Director: Catherine Breillat

Overview

Anna seems to have it all. A successful, respected lawyer and advocate, her life seems perfect, but when her stepson Théo rejoins the family, it is time for a darker reality to emerge. Catherine Breillat's new film has plenty of her trademark provocations (see Romance or Anatomy of Hell for precedent) but it works thanks to Léa Drucker's committed and nuanced performance as Anna. She gives her complex, shocking character just enough likeability, a highly controlled portrait of a woman in freefall.