Catherine Breillat
TIFF 2023 | Last Summer (Catherine Breillat, France) — Special Presentations
By Madeleine Wall | 09/05/2023 | Cinema Scope Online, CS96, Currency, From Cinema Scope Magazine, TIFF 2023
This year, the ever-industrious Saïd Ben Saïd has commissioned Catherine Breillat—for the 75-year-old director’s first film since 2013’s autobiographical Abus de faiblesse—not to specifically reimagine the story of Phaedra à la her other literary adaptations, but rather to remake May el-Toukhy’s 2019 Danish film Queen of Hearts, in which a successful lawyer has an affair with her adolescent stepson.
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