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Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer is now in post-production

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- Léa Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau and Samuel Kircher all star in the cast of this SBS production

Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer is now in post-production
Actress Léa Drucker (© Georges Biard) and actors Samuel Kircher and Olivier Rabourdin

13 July saw Catherine Breillat wrap shooting on Last Summer [+see also:
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, which started filming on 7 June and is her first film since Abuse of Weakness [+see also:
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interview: Catherine Breillat
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]
(unveiled in Toronto in 2013). For the record, the filmmaker has a total 14 feature films under her belt, having made her debut with Une vraie jeune fille (1976) and enjoyed premieres in Cannes (in competition in 2007 with The Last Mistress [+see also:
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, in the 1996 and 2002 Directors’ Fortnight sidebar with Perfect Love and Sex is Comedy), Berlin (in competition in 2001 with Fat Girl, and screened in the 2009 Panorama line-up via Bluebeard [+see also:
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as well as in the 2004 Forum with Anatomy of Hell [+see also:
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), Venice (in the New Territories section in 2001 courtesy of Brief Crossing and in the 2010 Orizzonti line-up with La Belle endormie) and Locarno (in competition in 1988 with 36 fillette).

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Starring in the cast of her new opus, we find Léa Drucker (awarded the 2019 Best Actress César for Custody [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Legrand
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, recently well-received in Incredible But True [+see also:
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interview: Quentin Dupieux
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]
and The World of Yesterday [+see also:
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interview: Diastème
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]
), Olivier Rabourdin (nominated for 2011’s Best Supporting Actor accolade thanks to Of Gods and Men [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Beauvois
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, recently at his best in Benedetta [+see also:
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) and Clotilde Courau (nominated for the 2015 Best Actress Lumière via In the Shadow of Women [+see also:
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, as well as for the 1996 Best Supporting Actress César and the 1991 European Film Award for Best Actress via The Little Gangster, and seen last year in Benedetta), alongside young Samuel Kircher.

Loosely adapted by Catherine Breillat from May el-Toukhy’s Danish film Queen of Hearts [+see also:
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interview: Gustav Lindh
interview: May el-Toukhy
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]
(which scooped the Audience Award in Sundance 2019), the story revolves around a lawyer who’s a mother to two little girls and who welcomes her husband’s 17-year-old son from his first marriage into her home before going on to have an affair with him.

Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd on behalf of SBS Productions, Last Summer notably benefits from an advance on receipts from the CNC. Photography, meanwhile, comes courtesy of Jeanne Lapoirie (nominated for the César in her speciality thanks to 8 Women [+see also:
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in 2003, Michael Kohlhaas [+see also:
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interview: Arnaud des Pallières
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in 2014 and BPM (Beats Per Minute) [+see also:
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interview: Robin Campillo
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in 2018).

For the record, SBS Productions are currently overseeing post-production on Ira Sachs Passages [+see also:
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(starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos).

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(Translated from French)

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