L'heure d'été (2008)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Olivier Assayas

Guionista:

Olivier Assayas (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

5 marzo 2008 (France)

Género:

Drama | Familia

Plot:

Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother's succession. |

Plot Keywords:

Memory | Art Museum | Telephone | Birthday | Vase

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Prosaic and almost without a plot - not the most satisfactory family drama

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Reparto

Juliette Binoche	...	Adrienne
Charles Berling	...	Frédéric
Jérémie Renier	...	Jérémie
Edith Scob	...	Hélène
Dominique Reymond	...	Lisa
Valérie Bonneton	...	Angela
Isabelle Sadoyan	...	Éloïse
Kyle Eastwood	...	James
Alice de Lencquesaing	...	Sylvie
Emile Berling	...	Pierre
Jean-Baptiste Malartre	...	Michel Waldemar
Gilles Arbona	...	Maître Lambert
Eric Elmosnino	...	Le commissaire de police
Marc Voinchet	...	Présentateur radio
Sara Martins	...	Atachée de presse

También conocida como:

Summer Hours (International: English title) (USA) (festival title)
Printemps passé (France) (working title)
Souvenirs du Valois (France) (working title)
Las horas del verano (Argentina) (Spain: Castilian title) [es]

Duración:

103 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés | Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

UK:12A | Netherlands:AL | Ireland:12A | Sweden:7 | Australia:M | Argentina:Atp | South Korea:12 | Portugal:M/12 | Japan:PG-12

Compañía:

MK2 Productions

Errores:

Continuidad: The shape of Adrienne's apple and the discoloration marks from oxidization change repeatedly during the conversation with her brothers.

Citas:

Éloïse: He said to choose anything. l couldn't take advantage. l took something ordinary. What would l do with something valuable?

Prosaic and almost without a plot - not the most satisfactory family drama

"Summer hours" is a family drama which may aspire to be deep and inspirational, but has not been greeted with too much success mainly due to the lack of a real plot and coherent structures bonding the bits and pieces.

The technique of demonstrating the difficulty in passing virtues or anything from generation to generation by portraying various unlovable characters may find its point and maybe, some success, but probably makes viewers a bit uncomfortable during the viewing. Indeed the linkage of relationships between generations is rather weak and could have been much more elaborate.

The ending sequence of the third generation holding a party with loud rock music in the house is a bit random and may blur the focus of the film. The eventual expression of sadness by the grand-daughter may even seem slightly out of place as we don't really know much history between herself and the house (we were told about her propensity to certain bad behaviour though). And numerous parts of the film reminded me of a more successful member of the same genre - "My favourite season" (just found out even the names of the 2 movies are quite similar). This really leads to a justifiable contrast in favour of the older member I presume.