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This is a great movie. At the end you've met people, you've experienced a mood and meditations on death without the sappy artificial plot twists and... pushy score Hollywood forces on you. If you want car chases and shallow insights that don't require any fresh thinking, you won't like this, but there are a lot of quiet effects, like when the housekeeper comes back and the one son who cares about the house which is being sold, gives her a glass vase. There's another scene where the two brothers quietly have a drink after a tense moment in the lawyer's office regarding the selling of the house. It's an understated demonstration of decent human behavior. Then the kicker at the end. What the adults allow as a last act before the house is turned over to the next family. Full Review
June 30,2009
JKawano
if you want to spend an hour and a half being totally bored and counting the minutes this is your kind of movie
May 31,2009
Njblondi
Summer Hours portrays the truth of what comes with the death of a parent and their meaningful possessions. What you thought would always be there... mes to an end. What is truly valuable is what is experienced and in our memories. Well done Full Review
May 28,2009
LChrisAsoc
will not see it.
May 25,2009
AURIO
Critic Reviews
In spite of its modest scale, tactful manner and potentially dowdy subject matter, is packed nearly to bursting with rich meaning and deep implication.Full Review
A.O. Scott
The New York Times
Brims with life and loveliness even as it meditates on the loss of childhood.Full Review
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
French films traditionally take France and its eternal appeal for granted. Summer Hours is the rare film that worries about that, worries about the future, and that proves to be invaluable.Full Review
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
Writer-director Olivier Assayas crafts a near perfect blend of humor and heartbreak, a lyrical masterwork that measures loss in terms practical and evanescent.Full Review
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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.Full Review
Noel Murray
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