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Janus Contemporaries: Last Summer
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:56 pm
by swo17
Re: Janus Contemporaries: Last Summer
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 11:33 pm
by Matt
I really liked this. Unmistakably a Breillat film, but with a pleasant splash of Rohmer in the idyllic setting, small cast, and nuanced sexual dynamics. I watched the live Criterion Channel stream last week.
If anybody else has seen it and wants to spoiler tag the last couple of minutes below, I'd appreciate it. I happened to look down at a message I got and missed them.
Re: Janus Contemporaries: Last Summer
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 11:45 am
by Aunt Peg
Such a shame that the far superior original film that Last Summer is based on Queen of Hearts (2019) remains missing in action in an English friendly Blu Ray edition.
Re: Janus Contemporaries: Last Summer
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 4:54 am
by Mr.DarjeelingLimited
Excellent. My favorite Breillat.
Re: Janus Contemporaries: Last Summer
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 5:12 am
by Mr.DarjeelingLimited
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Matt wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2024 11:33 pm
I really liked this. Unmistakably a Breillat film, but with a pleasant splash of Rohmer in the idyllic setting, small cast, and nuanced sexual dynamics. I watched the live Criterion Channel stream last week.
If anybody else has seen it and wants to spoiler tag the last couple of minutes below, I'd appreciate it. I happened to look down at a message I got and missed them.
Théo shows up at their door, reveals the agreement was fake, she has sex with him again, she’s goes back in, her husband realizes Théo was telling the truth roll credits
Re: Janus Contemporaries: Last Summer
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 5:30 pm
by Red Screamer
There's so much more to the ending, at least on an emotional level, that I hardly recognized the events as described in the spoiler box -- the magic of cinema.
For example, we see how her husband is on the verge of realizing that she was lying to him and the depths she sank to in doing so (though seemingly not what just happened in their backyard), but then he backs away and basically agrees to carry on as if he doesn't know. The film ends on an atypical fade-out with the wedding ring that binds this rotten marriage together shining faintly in the dark.