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Jun 29, 2024 · From her controversial 1976 directorial debut “A Real Young Girl” to even more confrontational later works like “Romance” (1999) and “Anatomy of Hell” (2004),...
Jun 28, 2024 · New York audiences might be the luckiest cinephiles this summer: French legend Catherine Breillat’s newest gem of a film Last Summer not only opens theatrically this weekend, but they were treated to a retrospective of the director’s work at Film at Lincoln Center.
Jun 28, 2024 · Be it an anecdote drawn from her own adolescent romantic dalliances or her acute observations about contemporary sexual politics, each carefully constructed image in the film carries the imprimatur of Breillat’s rigorous philosophical perspective.
Jun 27, 2024 · Within minutes, Breillat has introduced both her characters and their world with brisk narrative economy and a sly, telegraphing conflation of sex and violence: the bedroom, the couple, the...
Jun 28, 2024 · Richard Brody reviews the French filmmaker Catherine Breillat’s new film, “Last Summer,” starring Léa Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, and Samuel Kircher.
Jun 27, 2024 · The controversial French filmmaker’s Last Summer depicts a steamy affair between a middle-aged woman and her husband’s 17-year-old son from a previous marriage. She explains why she’s not a provocateur—and why she doesn’t need an intimacy coordinator.
Jun 28, 2024 · Catherine Breillat. Last Summer is a remake of the 2019 Danish film Queen of Hearts, but Breillat makes the material her own in her signature, uncompromising manner.