L' Heure d'été (Summer Hours)

It's a warm, allusive, subtle, thoughtful and very wise film about the very nature of civilization.....This is an absolutely exquisite movie.....It's a sublime movie, utterly unlike anything we've seen in months -....The French cast is marvelous, including an almost unrecognizable Juliette Binoche, hidden and dowdified in oversized sweat shirts -....He's the son of screenwriter Jacques Remy, which makes the stylistic sure-handedness and beauty of the film unsurprising..... ... Full Review

The movie proves sublimely generous with its affections.....This film is both beautiful....The triumph of the movie is....Writer-director Olivier Assayas' buoyant film about a French family in flux is based on an original script that's a cousin to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.....This is the art house equivalent of a perfect summer movie..... ... Full Review

Although Summer Hours is realistic....has a terrific ensemble cast, there's nothing terribly earthshaking that goes on in it..... ... Full Review

The movie proves sublimely generous with its affections.....The triumph of the movie is....This film is both beautiful....Writer-director Olivier Assayas' buoyant film about a French family in flux is based on an original script that's a cousin to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.....This is the art house equivalent of a perfect summer movie..... ... Full Review

For "Summer Hours" turns out to be global as well as personal, a family drama with a larger point.....Summer Hours" is talking not just about the potential end of this house but the possible disintegration of a society and a culture as well..... ... Full Review

"Summer Hours" opens with a family reunion at a marvelous old house in the country. But while the setting is familiar, even Chekhovian, what writer- director Olivier Assayas does with it is not. ... Full Article

"Summer Hours" is less a drama than a meditation. Olivier Assayas' film - a quiet study of a French family in the wake of a death - features no big outbursts, no raging melodrama. ... Full Article

T oronto tobacconists can expect a spike in the sale of Gauloises as the city readies for a summer of French film. Olivier Assayas's elegant provocation Summer Hours just opened. ... Full Article

We've all had death on our minds lately. around the world, the public sought out ways to process his passing. In the last week, we've heard a number of notable obituaries: The sudden deaths of pop star Michael Jackson and... ... Full Article

Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, there are two things that remain when you die: others' memories of you, and the possessions you leave behind. ... Full Article

Starring Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, J?r?mie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond and Val?rie Bonneton. Directed by Olivier Assayas. 103 minutes. French with subtitles. Cumberland Theatre. ... Full Article