{"id":16848,"date":"2024-10-12T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16848"},"modified":"2024-10-11T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T19:35:24","slug":"last-summer-2023-catherine-breillat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16848","title":{"rendered":"Last Summer (2023, Catherine Breillat)"},"content":{"rendered":"

L\u00e9a Drucker – coworker-friend of In My Skin<\/a><\/em>, aging-backwards wife of Incredible But True<\/a><\/em> – absolutely nailing her star turn here. Appropriately, as a kid she also appeared in Kung Fu Master<\/a><\/em>. Her husband (Adele’s dad in Passages<\/a><\/em>) brings home his estranged teen son Theo for the summer, and he’s a real asshole. When L\u00e9a discovers he burgled the house and stole her bag, she says she won’t tell if Theo acts like part of the family and drops the hostility. But he drops too much hostility and soon he’s having sex with his stepmom. Of course they’re caught, though it’s not clear at the end what the husband believes happened. Remake of recent Danish movie Queen of Hearts<\/em>. Breillat joins Assayas among French directors who think adding Sonic Youth music will make their movie cooler (they’re right).<\/p>\n

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Breillat in Decider<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a sociologist. I\u2019m not a psychologist. I\u2019m not interested in the question of the age gap. I am an entomologist. I look, and I represent things as they are, as naturally as I can … I was telling L\u00e9a, who\u2019d never done an intimate scene of this kind before, that I have less interest in bodies than the nudity of the face. And I told her, don\u2019t be mistaken, there\u2019s much more intimacy in allowing the camera in close-up on your bare face. That\u2019s what cinema is trying to get at, in the end. All I film is intimacy, and it\u2019s all on the face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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At rogerebert.com<\/a> she says her film is less moralistic than the one she’s remaking:<\/p>\n

In terms of what happens for L\u00e9a\u2019s character, it was very important that there be no kind of predatorial seduction [on Anne\u2019s part, as is the case in the Danish film] – it needed to be something that happened to her in a moment that she\u2019s caught off guard. She sets up a pact with him – when she says, \u201cI won\u2019t tell your father [that you robbed his house] if you agree to integrate [with] the family,\u201d it\u2019s at that moment that she signs her death warrant as a happily faithful wife. In that scene, he still looks very childish, quite chubby – he\u2019s not beautiful in any sexualizable way – but at some point, he looks up at her, and suddenly the camera comes in very close, his face gets thinner, and his features get sharper, and he looks at her like a woman. That gaze is what she\u2019s eventually going to succumb to because it\u2019s a gaze that is hard to resist – it carries the promise and the potential to make oneself younger again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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L\u00e9a Drucker – coworker-friend of In My Skin, aging-backwards wife of Incredible But True – absolutely nailing her star turn here. Appropriately, as a kid she also appeared in Kung Fu Master. Her husband (Adele’s dad in Passages) brings home his estranged teen son Theo for the summer, and he’s a real asshole. When L\u00e9a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,3195,1028,34,3325],"class_list":["post-16848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-age-gap-romance","tag-catherine-breillat","tag-france","tag-lea-drucker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16890,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848\/revisions\/16890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}