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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...