TOSTILL ONE SUMMER
Type: dramatic
Direction: Catherine Breillat. With Léa Druker, Samuel Kircher, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Serena Hu, Angela Chen, Jerôme Kircher, Romain Maricau
After having built a reputation on provocation (Virgin size 36, Sex is Comedy or Pornocracy some of her titles), Catherine Breillat risks being crushed by this reputation. This is what happened with the film presented at Cannes 2023, superficially received as a story of (almost) incest and forbidden sex.
Anne is a lawyer who has made a name for herself by defending abused girls: she lives with a very busy husband from work with whom she adopted two little girls, but one summer he invites home his son from his first bed, an arrogant and angry seventeen-year-old who begins to court his stepmotherwhich demonstrates unexpected complicity.
Léa Drucker with Samuel Kircher in “One More Summer”
The game between the two becomes something engaging for the woman who seems incapable of controlling the impulses of his own desire (and which Léa Drucker’s interpretation makes unforgettable).
At this point, however, a change of direction: faced with the revenge of the young man who reveals the affair to his father and reports his stepmother for violencehere the bourgeois honor put aside returns to guide the actions of the woman.
Léa Drucker with Olivier Rabourdin in “One More Summer”
And the film asks the spectator (and above all the female spectator) to choose between desire and respectability.
For those who want to deal with a “difficult” topic.
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