Last Summer

2023 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Thriller

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 82 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 4300 4.3K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Catherine Breillat Photo
Catherine Breillat

Top cast

Nelia Da Costa Photo
Nelia Da Costa as Amanda
Léa Drucker Photo
Léa Drucker as Anne
Karim Achoui Photo
Karim Achoui as Avocat Théo
Jérôme Kircher Photo
Jérôme Kircher as Invité apéritif
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
953.37 MB
1280*698
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 13
1.91 GB
1900*1036
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by pc95 6 / 10

Reprehensible indiscretion - Unpalatable Last 1/3rd

Reviewed by djlandd

Disappointing remake none the less

I like movies that get remade in a different country/language from the original. There is a different touch to it, and I like that change of freshness in addition to the film itself.I was looking forward for this movie recently after I heard it is a remake of 2019 Danish film "Queen of Hearts". I love the original movie, it was beautiful, Intense, the characters were great and so were the actors portraying them. I watched it long time back and was curious how much of it I would remember while I watch this French remake. Surprisingly it was a lot since scenes from this movie just kept on poking me, they just felt incomplete.The movie starts with a bad side actress, personally that stung me. I did not get involved with any characters, I didn't feel the motivation or any doings the characters do. The film just moves a pace than it should have. Things just happen and keep on happening, it just feels dead, I feel the audience doesn't get any chance understanding of how the characters are feeling or what they want next. It just felt like the film wants to move on to the next stage of story in each new scene, and that makes it dull, so eventually it gets unexciting minute by minute feeling tedious. And then a time comes you are just watching just to complete this movie till the end.I feel like Léa Drucker did good, She did her part nicely all through her scenes but the way this movie is done, she can't do anything and I don't blame her. Others were ok. I know this movie is shorter than the original and I realize it is because this they trimmed down on simple scenes that they felt is not important. But those scenes do justice, A simple scene from the original where Trine Dyrholm checks out herself in the mirror in a follow up scene gives out so much to the audience about what she is feeling. Léa Drucker doesn't have any scenes like these, so the connection between the audience and the characters die slowly. The sex scene in the original was intense and showed purpose, this film butchers that as well, there is no real narrative to that scene. It just doesn't go well,.I did a lot of comparison with the original but I would say none the less, the movie is a disappointment without the comparison. The screenplay, the pacing just doesn't feel organic. Will definitely recommend the original, Queen of Hearts(Dronningen) {2019}.
Reviewed by yehuda-867-191288 7 / 10

A MERITED EFFORT.

This is an important story given the sexual abuse of adolescent boys by women is more common then most people realize. Although this film has its faults, as already mentioned by other reviews, one of it's strengths is conveying so clearly the experience of the abused, especially the psycho-emotional confusion and post abuse sense of betrayal. And by having the character of the female abuser being a lawyer emphasizes all the more this betrayal of authority.To speak to a obvious weakness in the film, the actor that portrayed the abused boy lacked the talent to convey the emotions typically experienced in adolescence and sexual abuse. And his complete lack of experience smoking cigarettes was so very distracting.
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