Storyline

In a small town, Hélène is a family matriarch who has devoted her life to preserving the legacy of her artist uncle. However, while her eldest son, Frédéric, wants to preserve her home after her passing, she harbors no such illusions as she prepares her legacy. After her death, her children realize what she anticipated as they come to terms with their inheritance's place in their own lives. In the resulting disposition of their mother's assets, treasured heirlooms of a romantic family past drift away even as their changing modern world confronts the value of their memories.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

Plot Keywords

family relationships, champagne, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, uncle niece relationship, wine, cigarette smoking, book, art exhibition, art gallery, art deco, dog, telephone, loss of mother, family home

Short Review

( ... ) Summer Hours is Assayas's best film set on home turf-the one that best puts things in perspective and loudly proclaims that one must know how to shed dead skin to go on living.

Trailer

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