Our review of Last Summer: Chabrol on Prozac

2023-05-25 17:52:08

IN COMPETITION – For her fourteenth film, Catherine Breillat stages a lawyer who falls in love with her 17-year-old stepson. If Léa Drucker embodies this woman with the appropriate duplicity, the film does not have the scent of scandal of Devil in body or budding wheat.

What freshness! Catherine Breillat retained a clumsiness of a beginner. It’s almost touching. Naivety is lost in French cinema. It takes a good dose of innocence to imagine still being shocked. Last summer could have caused a scandal, say, in 1923: but no, it was the year of Devil in body (and also that of budding wheat). Or else in 1971. Missed again: it is the date of Heart murmur. Decidedly, there is no more morality.

In secret

Who will be offended because a brilliant lawyer has an affair with her stepson? At least it proves some sense of family. Laziness is not excluded, because things happen at home, which avoids clandestine meetings at the hotel, protects from provincial gossip.

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