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Summer Hours Written and directed by Olivier Assayas. With Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob. From France
When a parent dies, the five stages of grief her surviving children experience often go like this: denial, anger, depression, acceptance and, finally, bargaining over the estate. That, anyway, is the sequence of feelings that hit Frédéric (Berling), eldest child of Hélene (Scob), matriarch...
The movie naturally sags a bit at Hélwne's death. So does the moviegoer, as Summer Hours is obliged to follow the dispute and disposition of the estate. (Berling, solid and subtle, becomes the focus of the film; Binoche and Renier appear only briefly.) I think Assayas wants...
Into this milieu rides Gregoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling). Despite his lengthy name, by court standards he is a mere country bumpkin. His ancestral territory is a treacherous swampland, a breeding-ground for disease-bearing mosquitoes, and his people are dying. Gregoire is something of an engineer and he...
The Garbo charisma was a creation as mysterious in its genesis as in its impact. She was born Greta Gustafsson to a poor Stockholm family, and at first she gave little hint of her unique hold on the camera. In early publicity films she giggles and models dresses or gorges...