Catherine Breillat's 'Last Summer': A Steamy Tale of Taboo and Betrayal.
French filmmaker Catherine Breillat returns to Cannes with her latest film Last Summer, which confronts the taboo subject of sex between adults and children. The film follows a woman in early middle-age who has an affair with her teenage stepson, causing a bourgeois family to fracture and paper over the cracks with lies. Breillat's concentration on the encounters between the two characters makes the subsequent rejection and cruelty all the more devastating. The film is politically charged and every shot finds its target.
