Catherine Breillat’s taboo French drama Last Summer is an inconsistent cautionary tale

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The film is a remake of May el-Toukhy’s 2019 Danish drama Queen of Hearts, featuring a nearly identical script up until the ending – an extreme divergence

Classification, the latest effort from French filmmaker Catherine Breillat , opens with a teenage girl receiving legal counsel after being sexually assaulted, telling her lawyer through tears the number of people she slept with that year.

The French-language film follows Anne, her husband Pierre , and their two adopted daughters, as Pierre’s troubled teenage son from a previous marriage, Théo , comes to live with them. Théo’s antics go largely unnoticed by Pierre, a nondescript businessman seldom seen at home.

She repeatedly separates herself from the chaff – “Normopaths bore me,” she tells Pierre – which might clarify why she pines after a thorny, tattooed juvenile.

 

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