Kenneth Turan wrote the review of "Summer Hours", while Betshy Sharkey gave it a critic's choice award:Though you can almost smell the wisteria blooms, don't let the heavenly French country home and the lovely family gathered for lunch in the garden lull you into thinking that "Summer Hours" offers an escape from life's tougher realities. Rather, writer-director Olivier Assayas' finely wrought film uses the bucolic landscape to sow the first seeds of what will become more of a death and taxes discussion. Edith Scob's Hélène, the family matriarch, sets the table nicely, pulling aside her eldest, Frédéric (Charles Berling), to discuss her wishes on the dispensation of the house and its contents after her death. Also starring Juliette Binoche as the sister and Jérémie Renier as the other brother, "Summer Hours" proves a sharply incisive, yet poignant look at how we decide what bits of our past to keep and what to let go of. In this case, it's more than a mother's mementos at issue, it's France itself.
Synopsis
The divergent paths of three forty-something siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle’s exceptional 19th-century art collection, dies suddenly. Left to come to terms with themselves and their differences, Adrienne (Juliette Binoche), a successful New York designer, Frédéric (Charles Berling), an economist and university professor in Paris, and Jérémie (Jérémie Renier), a dynamic businessman in China, confront the end of childhood, their shared memories, background and unique vision of the future.
Opened May 15, 2009 Runtime:1 hr. 43 min.
*Note: Film is presented in French with English subtitles.
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond
Director: Olivier Assayas
Genres: Drama, Family Drama
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