The French provocateur Catherine Breillat gets her kicks with unnerving tales of sexual coercion, but a clothed, close-up first kiss in “Last Summer” may be her most excruciating to date. The woman is a middle-aged lawyer named Anne (Léa Drucker). The man is, in truth, a boy: Anne’s 17-year-old stepson Théo (Samuel Kircher).
And the camera holds on their wet and forceful kiss for an agonizingly long time, cutting away only to be replaced by another merciless shot of the boy engaged in an activity that I’m not brave enough to put in print..
