Blu-ray, DVD Release: Last Summer

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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb 18, 2025
Price: DVD $17.49, Blu-ray $20.99
Studio: Janus Contemporaries/Criterion Collection

After a decade-long absence, Catherine Breillat (Bluebeard, The Sleeping Beauty) triumphantly returns with an exploration of the themes that have made her one of cinema’s most rousing and controversial directors: the ecstasies and wounds of sexuality, and its power to unsettle.

Samuel Kircher, left, and Léa Drucker in Last Summer

A remarkably inscrutable Léa Drucker (Two of Us) plays Anne—an attorney advocating for abused minors—who enjoys an enviable lifestyle with her husband, Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin), a milquetoast businessman and ineffectual father to Théo (newcomer Samuel Kircher), his troubled teenage son from a previous marriage. Compelled by her stepson’s Apollonian beauty, Anne embarks on an affair that threatens the stability of her household, along with her professional integrity, as she faces a choice between accountability and deception.

Original music by Kim Gordon and radiantly expressionist cinematography by Jeanne Lapoirie heighten the erotic and ethical tensions of Last Summer, Breillat’s latest foray into the outer limits of desire.

Bonus features on this edition include the following:

  • Meet the Filmmakers,a new interview with director Catherine Breillat
  • Trailer
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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.