Last Summer. 2024. Written and directed by Catherine Breillat

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Held on Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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Last Summer. 2024. France. Directed by Catherine Breillat. Courtesy Sideshow

Last Summer. 2024. France. Written and directed by Catherine Breillat. Based on the film Dronningen directed by May el-Toukhy. With Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher. DCP courtesy Sideshow. In French; English subtitles. 104 min.

Catherine Breillat is no stranger to controversy, and her latest film is no exception. Still, defining Breillat’s cinema in such reductive terms wouldn’t pay proper tribute to the French director’s ever-expansive gaze on a woman’s desire, the transgressive manifestations of physical attractions, and one’s (little) death and rebirth in sex. In Last Summer, Léa Drucker plays a middle-aged lawyer who defends young victims of sexual abuse and finds parental custody for them, a cause that (might) hint at her own personal history. As her husband’s 17-year-old estranged son comes to live with the couple for the first time, his discomfort and rebellion sparks an interest that soon becomes intimate, defying boundaries and power dynamics in a dangerous game fueled by physical passion and mental manipulation.

This film accompanies The Contenders 2024.

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