2008 · drama · french
Summer Hours
Directed by Olivier Assayas1h 43m2008
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
Our read: Summer Hours (2008) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · french entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / french, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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