Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Vonia Summer Hours (French: L'Heure d'été) (2008) Director: Oliver Assayas 6/10 Ensemble cast with impressive performances, As much about the family members as it is about the priceless artifacts they donate to the Musée d'Orsay. A meditative film on inheritance, heritage, and loss, Subtle in its merits that take patience and investment to appreciate? Or merely a pretentious film about the bourgeoisie's materialism? Gogyohka literally translates to "five-line poem." An alternative to the tanka form, the gogyohka has very simple rules. Five lines with one phrase per line. What comprises a phrase? Eye of the beholder- or the poet, in this case. #Gogyohka #PoemReview

sergepesic This beautiful, quiet and restrained French movie, flawlessly exposes the broken world we live in. Antiques, art, pieces of handcrafted stylish furniture, houses, land, all the material goods that defined the civilized world through centuries are becoming expendable. The new world order has no time nor place for sentimental values.Memories are waste of time, home we grew up in, just a real estate of different value, even family stretched across the globe, vanishes in this rat race called modern living. The affluent and self-absorbed siblings in "Summer Hours", fully embrace the shallow and ,simply unimportant, money grabbing planet we live on.

ploader1 It's a shame that we are required to write a minimum of 10 lines when reviewing a film because I cannot think of 10 lines worth of comment to make about this extremely dull film. My friend and I left half way through.A bourgeois family get together after their art collecting mother has died, and proceed to discuss various 'beautiful' objects she has left behind. This is presented without any irony whatsoever, as though initially at least, we are supposed to identify with these empty people or care about their useless objectified lives. I kept waiting for something to happen which would seriously disrupt proceedings - maybe there would be a revolution or one of them would get seriously maimed by an anarchist bomb.Unfortunately not.

bandw This movie opens with Hélène (Edith Scob in a fine performance) at her country home in France, in the company of her three children. There is a daughter, Adrienne (Juliette Binoche) who lives in New York, a son who lives in China, and another son who is still in France. The story is told in two parts: at the opening gathering when Hélène, age 75, is enjoying the reunion; then less than a year later as the children gather for Hélène's funeral and the ensuing discussion among them about what will happen with her possessions.Such stories happen thousands of times a day, but each one is unique and this movie details one such in a straightforward way such that you get to know the characters involved, the tensions among them, and what motivates the decisions each makes. If you are expecting high drama or heavy sentimentality, you will not find it here. Rather you will find caring, intelligent people trying to resolve issues in a civil manner. As is often the case upon a death in the family certain topics are discussed that have never been openly brought up before.In the first part of the movie Hélène contemplates her mortality and anticipates what will happen after her death. I found Hélène to be a very sympathetic and insightful person. She has such thoughts as, "A lot of things will be leaving with me. memories, secrets, stories that interest no one anymore," and, commenting on an accident that happened when her kids were young that resulted in the destruction of a valuable sculpture she says, "It's sad, but that's life." In thinking about her children Hélène thinks to herself, "They have lives of their own. Their concerns aren't mine." She thinks such things more as matters of fact rather than as regrets. If you are of a certain age, this film will make you think about what of significance will remain of you after your death. At best for most of us, in a few generations our lives will be but a marker in someone's genealogy.There are some wonderful scenes filmed with subtly. When her children leave after the visit in the first part of the movie, Hélène is seen slowly walking alone up the steps to her house. The contrast from the chaos of the goodbyes to solitude is strikingly done. And when Hélène enters the house, we see in the background a warmly lighted room, but Hélène chooses to sit quietly in a darkened room. This is filmed in a pale blue light that accentuates the poignancy of Hélène's thoughts. The housekeeper's final visit to the house is quite moving and masterfully done.A couple of Hélène's grandchildren and their friends play significant roles. The presentation of the generational transitions from Hélène's world to that of her children and then to her grandchildren's generation is nicely done. Some things change, some things stay the same, life goes on.I think that if you wind up not liking this movie, it will not be because of the casting, the acting, or the filming.