"We Have Regressed Into an Obtuse and Rigid Moral Order": Catherine Breillat on Last Summer

It's been a long decade's wait since Catherine Breillat's last feature, the semi-autobiographical Abuse of Weakness with Isabelle Huppert, but Last Summer shows the uncompromising French filmmaker in top form, at once fierce and precise. Returning to a favored subject--the desires and power dynamics in affairs between adolescents and usually much older adults--Breillat brings in another taboo this time: the messy sexual obsession between a lawyer, Anne (Léa Drucker), and her 17-year-old stepson...