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Olivier Assayas' contemplative family drama handles lofty ideas about art and culture with elegance and lightness.
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Assayas' script is more allusive than demonstrative, with a distinct whiff of Eric Rohmer in its conversational blocks separated by fadeouts. Dec 16, 2009 | Full Review…
Assayas' script is more allusive than demonstrative, with a distinct whiff of Eric Rohmer in its conversational blocks separated by fadeouts.
Derek Elley
n Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas's gently provocative rumination on family and possessions, a trio of siblings wrestles with the problem of what to do with the old homestead once Mother is gone. Aug 23, 2009 | Full Review…
n Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas's gently provocative rumination on family and possessions, a trio of siblings wrestles with the problem of what to do with the old homestead once Mother is gone.
Jonathan F. Richards
Evocative look at a family trying to decide what to do with its treasures. Jun 19, 2009
Evocative look at a family trying to decide what to do with its treasures.
Ray Bennett
Where a Hollywood film of a family feuding over a fabulous estate would surely end with a slapped face and an infantry charge of lawyers, Assayas's work concludes with a smile and a shrug. Life goes on. What else can it do? Jun 19, 2009 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Where a Hollywood film of a family feuding over a fabulous estate would surely end with a slapped face and an infantry charge of lawyers, Assayas's work concludes with a smile and a shrug. Life goes on. What else can it do?
Stephen Cole
Performances in this small and profoundly eloquent film are superb, yet none redirects attention from Assayas's earnest meditation on the ravaging effects of a shrinking world on family traditions and entrenched personal relationships. Jun 19, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Performances in this small and profoundly eloquent film are superb, yet none redirects attention from Assayas's earnest meditation on the ravaging effects of a shrinking world on family traditions and entrenched personal relationships.
Greg Quill
This is a movie that, for all its once-over-lightliness, stays with one. Given what it's about, and the intelligence of its makers, how could it not? Jun 11, 2009 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
This is a movie that, for all its once-over-lightliness, stays with one. Given what it's about, and the intelligence of its makers, how could it not?
Peter Rainer
A profound and affecting film that is both inspiring and unforgettable. Jun 6, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A profound and affecting film that is both inspiring and unforgettable.
Matthew Lucas
I love films which capture that atmosphere of late summer, lazy and sultry and shadowed by the coming autumn. So I found this very moving. Sep 6, 2018 | Full Review…
I love films which capture that atmosphere of late summer, lazy and sultry and shadowed by the coming autumn. So I found this very moving.
Eve Tushnet
In crafting his own objet d'art, Assayas has paid careful consideration to the fine aesthetic practiced in Taiwan, particularly that of Hou Hsiao-hsie. Oct 10, 2017 | Full Review…
In crafting his own objet d'art, Assayas has paid careful consideration to the fine aesthetic practiced in Taiwan, particularly that of Hou Hsiao-hsie.
Jay Kuehner
Avoiding easy conflict and histrionics, Summer Hours instead shows loving siblings, relatives and friends negotiating differences the best that they can. Aug 23, 2017 | Full Review…
Avoiding easy conflict and histrionics, Summer Hours instead shows loving siblings, relatives and friends negotiating differences the best that they can.
Eric Hynes
Olivier Assayas's new meditation on French domestic life, the wisely ironic Summer Hours, begins with children's games and ends with adolescent partying and pairing off -- that is, the real business of life Mar 17, 2015 | Full Review…
Olivier Assayas's new meditation on French domestic life, the wisely ironic Summer Hours, begins with children's games and ends with adolescent partying and pairing off -- that is, the real business of life
Stuart Klawans
( ... ) Summer Hours is Assayas's best film set on home turf-the one that best puts things in perspective and loudly proclaims that one must know how to shed dead skin to go on living. Nov 17, 2013 | Full Review…
( ... ) Summer Hours is Assayas's best film set on home turf-the one that best puts things in perspective and loudly proclaims that one must know how to shed dead skin to go on living.
Frédéric Bonnaud
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