Last Summer | Catherine Breillat

[Cremildo]

Starring in the cast of her new opus, we find Léa Drucker (awarded the 2019 Best Actress César for Custody, recently well-received in Incredible But True and The World of Yesterday), Olivier Rabourdin (nominated for 2011’s Best Supporting Actor accolade thanks to Of Gods and Men, recently at his best in Benedetta) and Clotilde Courau (nominated for the 2015 Best Actress Lumière via In the Shadow of Women, as well as for the 1996 Best Supporting Actress César and the 1991 European Film Award for Best Actress via The Little Gangster, and seen last year in Benedetta), alongside young Samuel Kircher.

Loosely adapted by Catherine Breillat from May el-Toukhy’s Danish film Queen of Hearts (which scooped the Audience Award in Sundance 2019), the story revolves around a lawyer who’s a mother to two little girls and who welcomes her husband’s 17-year-old son from his first marriage into her home before going on to have an affair with him. [+]