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Movie Info

Delphine (Marie Rivière) is a beautiful young Parisian who is still smarting from a recent break-up. When a friend nixes their travel plans shortly before the trip, Delphine is left to decide how to spend her holiday. Soon she is dealing with various uncomfortable situations, including a beach getaway where she is the only single person. After attempting a trip to the overcrowded Alps, Delphine entertains more vacation options, but will the restless soul ever find what she's looking for?

Rating:

R
Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

French (Canada)
Director:

Eric Rohmer
Producer:

Margaret Ménégoz
Writer:

Marie Rivière, Eric Rohmer
Release Date (Streaming):

Sep 13, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA):

$37.5K
Runtime:

1h 38m
Production Co:

Les Films du Losange
Sound Mix:

Mono

Cast & Crew

Marie Rivière
Delphine

Amira Chemakhi
in Paris

Lisa Heredia
Manuella in Paris

Basile Gervaise
in Paris

Virginie Gervaise
in Paris

René Hernandez
in Paris

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Critic Reviews for Summer

All Critics (29) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (2)

A beautiful narrative of self-discovery, elegant in its simplicity; Rohmer doesn't have to push hard on his basic premise to find extraordinary meaning.

August 23, 2017 | Full Review…

Tina Hassannia
Village Voice
Some films exist in a vacuum. Others, like Le rayon vert, the fifth tale in ric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series, are destined to have a seismic impact on the cinema that comes after it.

March 6, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Wendy Ide
Times (UK)
A perspicaciously empathetic study of solitude, depression and anxiety.

January 4, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Jonathan Romney
Observer (UK)
A lovely, gentle film.

January 1, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
A film which is at once nothing and everything.

January 1, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

David Jenkins
Little White Lies
What might easily feel loose and inconsequential ends up feeling like sly magic.

December 22, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Dave Calhoun
Time Out
Serves as an enlightening look at contemporary metropolitan life in France and Europe in the eighties. [Full review in Spanish]

November 17, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Luis Fernando Galván
En Filme
It's a film of unwavering humanity -- unflinching in the face of prickly, tangled emotions -- and yet it is defined by a strange, magical diversion towards the metaphysical.

April 4, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Craig Williams
CineVue
When I signed up to post about "unlikable women" I thought of its main character Delphine [Marie Rivière], a single 30-ish woman who can't seem to find any peace of mind in the month-long summer vacation that is part of French life.

March 11, 2019 | Full Review…

Ren Jender
Bitch Flicks
Le rayon vert is one of ric Rohmer's greatest studies of light, voices, and mercurial human sensation.

December 15, 2017 | Full Review…

Fernando F. Croce
MUBI
I've seen "Le rayon vert" at least five times, and when I saw it again a few days ago, the beauty of its complex structure struck me once again, combining as it does the rationalism of moral convictions with the almost superstitious belief in fate.

May 20, 2012 | Full Review…

Beverly Berning
culturevulture.net
It's as if we ourselves are observing life, learning and evolving with Delphine.

July 9, 2011 | Rating: 76/100 | Full Review…

Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt

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Audience Reviews for Summer

Sep 14, 2012

this film was released in 1986 actually, and it's the rohmer film for folks who don't like rohmer much. i'm not his biggest fan but he certainly has a gift for making mundane conversations interesting and whiny characters sympathetic. very enjoyable

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