In filmmaker Catherine Breillat’s feature, “when will it start?” morphs into “how long can it remain secret?” and then something else.
Opening this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center, the suspenseful, elegantly destabilizing “Last Summer” concerns a defense attorney, her businessman husband, her husband’s teenaged son from an earlier marriage — and a particularly dangerous corner of sensual recklessness, price unknown.among others. The opening minutes of “Last Summer” remind us of every sublime paradox found in the work of this filmmaker, now 75 and as much of a provocateur as ever.
He’s also an adroit manipulator. While Pierre remains mired in guilt over not being around as a parent in the previous marriage, when Théo was younger, Anne finds ways to pry him out of his shell. In certain ways stepmother and stepson are both deceptive, or at least strategically truthful.
The movie’s confident and sure-footed enough to make its origins something of a surprise. “Last Summer” is a pretty faithful adaptation of the 2019 film “Queen of Hearts,” directed and co-written by Danish-Egyptian filmmaker May el-Toukhy. In that earlier picture the stepmother’s the clear instigator, and a more combustible emotional creature. Breillat’s changes, I think, are entirely for the better.
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