Craig here, taking a look at a recent DVD release.
L'heure d'été. Or, more precisely, how about Summer Hours? A title that rolls delectably off the tongue, eh? Either way, it's a title that conjures up a certain, almost sensory, feeling. There's something nostalgic about it, as if it might recall a specific time in the distant past when warm days and lighter evenings were what you all lived for.
This week saw the Criterion DVD release of Olivier Assayas' beguiling 2008 film, and indeed several scenes, especially the very last one, come almost perfectly close to approximating that wistful, aerated feeling brought on as the remnants of summer fade away. Although, perhaps the title of another recent French film, Private Property, is also apt to describe the overriding themes of Assayas' film. Summer Hours is about the very things given, taken, held close or that may get passed down the family line: objects,...
L'heure d'été. Or, more precisely, how about Summer Hours? A title that rolls delectably off the tongue, eh? Either way, it's a title that conjures up a certain, almost sensory, feeling. There's something nostalgic about it, as if it might recall a specific time in the distant past when warm days and lighter evenings were what you all lived for.
This week saw the Criterion DVD release of Olivier Assayas' beguiling 2008 film, and indeed several scenes, especially the very last one, come almost perfectly close to approximating that wistful, aerated feeling brought on as the remnants of summer fade away. Although, perhaps the title of another recent French film, Private Property, is also apt to describe the overriding themes of Assayas' film. Summer Hours is about the very things given, taken, held close or that may get passed down the family line: objects,...
- 4/24/2010
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours received several kudos throughout 2009, primarily from critical groups including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the New York Film Critics Circle, both of which named it the best Foreign Language Film of 2009. While it didn't go on to earn an Oscar nomination, I can now see why so many enjoy it as I missed it when it was in theaters last year.
Helene (Edith Scob), mother to Adrienne (Juliette Binoche), Frederic (Charles Berling) and Jeremie (Jeremie Renier), has called her family to their childhood home in France to celebrate her birthday as well as discuss her will. Determined to make sure her affairs are in order when she passes away, Helene discusses her thoughts with Frederic, the most sentimental of the three, a sentimentality that will be challenged throughout the rest of the picture as Helene's passing causes those she leaves behind to consider...
Helene (Edith Scob), mother to Adrienne (Juliette Binoche), Frederic (Charles Berling) and Jeremie (Jeremie Renier), has called her family to their childhood home in France to celebrate her birthday as well as discuss her will. Determined to make sure her affairs are in order when she passes away, Helene discusses her thoughts with Frederic, the most sentimental of the three, a sentimentality that will be challenged throughout the rest of the picture as Helene's passing causes those she leaves behind to consider...
- 4/20/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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