Synopsis
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
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Cast
- Juliette BinocheAdrienne
- Charles BerlingFrédéric
- Jérémie RenierJérémie
- Édith ScobHélène
- Dominique ReymondLisa
- Valérie BonnetonAngela
- Isabelle SadoyanEloïse
- Kyle EastwoodJames
- Alice de LencquesaingSylvie
- Émile BerlingPierre
Recommendations
- 100
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Hats off to Olivier Assayas's plain yet hauntingly beautiful Summer Hours, a true--albeit nonsecular--meditation on art and eternal life. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
Brims with life and loveliness even as it meditates on the loss of childhood. - 100
The New York Times
In spite of its modest scale, tactful manner and potentially dowdy subject matter, is packed nearly to bursting with rich meaning and deep implication. - 88
Rolling Stone
Writer-director Olivier Assayas crafts a near perfect blend of humor and heartbreak, a lyrical masterwork that measures loss in terms practical and evanescent. - 83
The A.V. Club
Its final scene is almost overpoweringly tender and beautiful, offering a hopeful rejoinder to all the prior scenes of family members shedding their shared legacy. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Assayas makes the point that objects of fascination and affection to one generation may be far less so to the next. And he observes the role that people-friendly museums can play in keeping a nation's treasures safe with pleasing subtlety. - 80
Variety
A family ensembler of utter simplicity, Oliver Assayas' Summer Hours is a salutory (and belated) reminder that, as with his earlier Cold Water and Late August, Early September, some of this writer-director's best work comes in modest packages. - 75
ReelViews
Summer Hours attracted two of France's acting luminaries, and their presence elevates the material. Charles Berling has the central role; the movie is largely told from his perspective. Juliette Binoche, with blonde hair, has a secondary part.
