Review of Summer of '42 (1971) by Philip French for The Observer (UK) — 01 Apr 1991
The movie isn't set up to tell a story about a boy who was young in the summer of 1942; it insists on presenting itself, instead, as an adult memory of that long-ago summer. We don't learn very much about the boy because the movie's adult point of view refuses to come to terms with him.
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This review of Summer of '42 (1971) was written by Philip French and published by The Observer (UK) on 01 Apr 1991.
Summer of '42 has generally received positive reviews.
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