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 L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] Summer Hours Quote: Summer Hours (French: L'Heure d'été) is a 2008 French drama film directed by Olivier Assayas. It is the second in a series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, after The Flight of the Red Balloon. In the film, two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother's succession.
The film received its United States premiere at the 46th New York Film Festival on October 1, 2008 in New York.
The Criterion Collection released a special edition of the film on April 20, 2010.
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Re: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] Didn't realize that I've liked all his works that I've seen (Clean, a Maggie Gyllenhaal segment in Paris Je t'aim and this). Makes me want to check out his early work. Any recommendation?
Oh, I great this film 'A'. Can't decide which is stronger; the characters construction (?) or Assayas' brilliant directing.
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Re: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] Heh! What a contrast!!! A reasonably well-adjusted French family versus the typical rest of the world family - - it's all here in this one movie. Summer Hours is a wonderfully directed intimate view of a family's dynamic through one particular event/period in the course of it's life. It's really quite inspirational... I could aspire to be part of such a family! But then, inspirational families are a definite turn-off to the majority of maladjusted moviegoers today. Just think back to last year's Rachel Getting Married... far from blissing out on the ceremony of it all, many experienced physical revulsion. It seems that when confronted with the real possibility of a passionate and reasonable family, that some heads simply explode. The actors are uniformly low-key and authentic in their portrayal of these low-key and authentically written characters. One can only applaud and shout: "Bravo, Olivier Assayas, bravo!" It is the very model for what a family film might aspire to be in some future utopian fantasy Earth...      out of
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Re: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] bumping now that it's finally getting some attention
best movie of the year by me (although I haven't seen much)
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Re: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] Sucks and Swallows.
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Re: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] 6/10 -> C
It's enjoyable while it lasts. But then it ends. And it doesn't leave a single trace of any feelings. Everything in this movie feels very hermetic. The characters and the confrontations never get you emotional.
Everything is fairly well done here, I don't have any major objections. It's just that these small scale events featuring large scale emotions for the ones involved never fully came through for me. Except with the maid and the vase. I loved that part.
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Re: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] I don't know why but I randomly thought of this movie today. Excellent little film, absolutely beautiful in its simplicity. In modern film I really like a less is more and this performs even better than most. It's no 4 months 3 weeks and 2 days as far as minimalist realism, and features an almost opposite approach in tone and delivery to that scope, but it's quite beautiful for what it is.
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Re: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] You're missing the Bradley scale.
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Re: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] be.redy wrote: You're missing the Bradley scale. aww, you're right: 43 out of 5 I'm not going to the trouble of the old smiley face one though. _________________Mr. R wrote: Malcolm wrote: You seem to think threatening violence against people is perfectly okay because you feel offended by their words, so that's kind of telling in itself. Exactly. If they don't know how to behave, and feel OK offending others, they get their ass kicked, so they'll think next time before opening their rotten mouths.
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Re: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] As light as a feather and as deep as a well - if you can get past the bourgeois surface, of course.
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Re: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] The movie has a realistic subtlety rarely seen in Hollywood indie dramas.
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