'LAST SUMMER' (L'été Dernier) Movie Review - An Engrossing, Provacative Catherine Breillat Thriller

Intro here's the good news I I was able to see a good movie this week that film is called Last Summer it's a movie by Katherine berat believe she's a French filmmaker and it centers on yeah she's a French aour she's 75 years old Roose I don't know if you've ever seen fat girl that movie came out 20 plus years ago I think you would love that movie very interesting artist and this movie is essentially a family drama Katherine berot is also a co-writer in collaboration with Pascal bonitzer the movie centers on a a lawyer and that lawyer is played by Leah Leah duer and she's a very successful woman she has really loving husband who's a businessman and she has two wonderful adopted Asian daughters or kids and they live somewhere in this remote area of France like French Countryside area very nice idelic location the problem is her Suburban life is upended by the arrival of her stepson her stepson he's 17 and he's just a whole lot of trouble and here's the thing he is more than a whole lot of trouble is this is not a spoiler this is a premise of the this is a summary she ends up hooking up with this her 17-year-old stepson Theo Theo is played by Samuel ker and what happens for the rest of the narrative is you get to see a little bit of their relationship and what happens when it's a wrong situation right she's she's an attorney actually what's interesting she's an attorney for people who are abused and here she is abusing a 17-year-old and seducing a 17-year-old okay so that is the premise of last summer what happens to this relationship will they stay together if they don't stay together will the secret of their illicit and legal affairs come out to the husband and to loved ones etc etc there's a lot of speaking and talking in last summer it's one of these sophisticated adult dramas but under the hands of Katherine bot it is a lot it's an elevated family drama music is by Kim Gordon former member of Sonic Youth and it says here music by Kim Kim Gordon heightens the erotic tension of last summer a film that boldly surveys power dynamics female desire and fulfillment so again it's not kind of it's really kind of not cool to see a 17-year-old and a woman in her early to mid-50s hooking up it's not too graphic to sex but it is intimate so this is one of these movies that some people might not be able to stomach the movie is based on it's a remake of the 2019 Danish film Queen of Hearts but I love this movie first of all it's a great look at power dynamics and sort of that intricate plot of what happens when this relationship goes sour and it's fat girl from Katherine brot from 20 some odd years ago really went there with its graphic nature and its execution and that same aesthetic applies to all of the events that transpire in last summer you think it's going to go someplace regarding her relationship with a teenager but it goes just different kind of Beats and it's a very unex expected and unpredictable family drama unpredictable and unexpected is something you do not see too much in the family drama genre and I'm so glad to see that it is prevalent in last summer it's only playing though Friday June 28th at the newart the Los Angeles newart theater if you are listening cinematics Facebook group member Matt Stillman if you have time go check out last summer or if you are in Los Angeles give this movie A shot and I'm sure as the weeks wind down in summer there will be more locations to check it out but until then June 28th at the Los Angeles North theater my rating for last summer four and a half Stars I also want to apologize to Bruce and Eric after all their praises for Chronicles of a Wandering Saint it opens in New York June 28th at IFC Center as well as Los Angeles July 5th at lumir Cinema again that's unfortunate that is that sounds that that that sounds like it's gonna play in three theaters and then be forgotten I if you're listening to this when Chron when you can see Chronicles of wandering Saint go watch it okay and it's Bruce pery and Eric's Eric Holmes's job to make sure that Chronicles of a Wandering Satan get seen by way more people than the people who see it in these two movie theaters that's their that's our job as cinematics as the leaders of cinematics finding undiscovered or gems that are in the dirt people can't find it one of them is Chronicles of wandering Saint the other is last summer did I like it because of the puant interest of an of a woman a middle-aged woman and a 17-year-old I'm not going to say I'm just saying it's an elevated classy family drama well done it's just a really well done film by Katherine blot again what did I give it ericom did I give it I'm not going to Ratings give it yes four four yes four and a half very good air coms this is cinematics