Last Summer

Name: Last Summer
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: June 28, 2024
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Angela Chen, Clotilde Courau, Léa Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, Samuel Kircher

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Janus Films | Release Date: June 28, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Angela Chen, Clotilde Courau, Léa Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, Samuel Kircher, Serena Hu

Summary: Anne (Léa Drucker), a brilliant lawyer, lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo (Samuel Kircher), Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.

Director: Catherine Breillat

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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The Playlist Elena Lazic

May 30, 2023

Breillat’s film is devastating because it exposes at the heart of a seemingly normal family a black hole where empathy should be. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Jun 27, 2024

Last Summer is complex, tricky, at times very uncomfortable and thoroughly engrossing. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Jun 29, 2024

A family drama as masterfully propulsive as a horror movie. Read full review

Richard Brody

Jul 1, 2024

Breillat directs her cast with precise clarity, and her exacting staging produces both intensely evocative moments and a rare, quietly terrifying pugnacity that permeates the drama. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Jul 12, 2024

The French provocateur Catherine Breillat gets her kicks with unnerving tales of sexual coercion, but a clothed, close-up first kiss in “Last Summer” may be her most excruciating to date. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Sep 8, 2023

The film somehow feels tight, open and leisurely, and cloaked in dread all at once. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 26, 2023

Breillat’s movie rolls along capably enough while the affair is in progress, but it’s tested to destruction when things go wrong. She is not good at delivering the iciness crucial to the story’s third act, happier as she is with the sunny, languorous sexiness of the amour fou. Read full review

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