Review of Summer Hours (2008) by La V — 20 Sep 2009
European movies. One thing you can say about them is that the best, they actually are about real people and real life. Here we meet a lovely family of middle aged "kids" (including Binoche) and their mom, a 75 year-old woman with a fascinating family-centered secret woven into what sounds like a most intriguing life.
The secret itself, scandalous and tantalizing, is gradually revealed, but the basic tale is about the dashing of expectations, the end of an era. Everyone is civilized and adult about things, but the family for which a lovely old home in Ile de Paris, if memory serves, is the metaphor, is going its own way to far shores in bits and pieces, the inevitable but melancholy result of the glamor of today's "global economy.
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This review of Summer Hours (2008) was written by La V on 20 Sep 2009.
Summer Hours has generally received positive reviews.
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