Last Summer (2023)
Directed by Catherine Breillat
One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.
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At a different time, I might have been more inclined to entertain Reijn's proposition seriously. But it's just her luck that the great Catherine Breillat, who has devoted her illustrious career to investigating these taboos, dropped a far superior film on the same subject matter, Last Summer, just a few months prior, beating Reijn to the finish line. Breillat imbued the forbidden May-December in that film with much more nuance, such as the successful older woman attorney's maternal instincts and the manipulativeness of her stepson, all of which are lacking here.