Summer Hours: A Time to Live and a Time to Die
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Film Info
- France
- 2008
- 99 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- French
- Spine #513
Universally acclaimed by critics, the multiple award-winning Summer Hours is the great contemporary French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s most personal film to date. Three siblings, played by Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie Rénier, must decide what to do with the country estate and objects they’ve inherited from their mother. From this simple story, Assayas creates an exquisitely nuanced drama about the material of globalized modern living. Naturalistic and unsentimental, Summer Hours is that rare film that pays respect to family by treating it with honesty.
Cast
| Adrienne | Juliette Binoche |
| Frédéric | Charles Berling |
| Jérémie | Jérémie Renier |
| Hélène | Edith Scob |
| James | Kyle Eastwood |
| Lisa | Dominique Reymond |
| Angela | Valérie Bonneton |
| Éloise | Isabelle Sadoyan |
| Sylvie | Alice de Lencquesaing |
| Pierre | Emile Berling |
| Police officer | Eric Elmosnino |
Credits
| Director | Olivier Assayas |
| Screenplay | Olivier Assayas |
| Producer | Charles Gillibert, Marin Karmitz and Nathanaël Karmitz |
| Cinematography | Eric Gautier |
| Editing | Luc Barnier |
| Executive producer | Claire Dornoy |
| Casting director | Antoinette Boulat |
| Set decorator | Sandrine Mauvezin |
| Sound editor | Nicolas Cantin |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Olivier Assayas and approved by Assayas and cinematographer Eric Gautier (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- New video interview with Assayas
- Making-of documentary featuring interviews with Assayas and actors Charles Berling and Juliette Binoche, and showing the cast and crew on set
- Inventory, an hour-long documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines the film’s approach to art
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones
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