SUMMER HOURS

SUMMER HOURS (L’HEURE D'ÉTÉ), 2008
France | 35mm, Color, 103’ | French, English
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier

After their mother dies three siblings gather in their childhood country house outside Paris to divide the inheritance and trade memories. Adrienne is a designer, Frédéric a professor, and Jérémie a distinguished businessman; as they settle scores they will witness that their memories fade between past and present. A lyrical family drama perfectly blending humor and heartbreak and marked by dialogues full of emotion. The director takes us to the heart of a bourgeois French family and creates a “French classic” by transforming this familiar material into an ‘ensemble film’ marked by dialogues full of emotion.