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Summer Hours

Olivier Assayas, Director

2008 | 103 | Feature

Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jeremie Renier and Edith Scob star in Olivier Assayas’s wistful Chekhovian family drama about the passing of time, the power of possessions and one’s duty to the past. Hélène (Scob), the family matriarch, lives in rural France in an old house filled with treasures — including two Corot paintings — many once owned by Hélène 's uncle, a noted French artist. Soon her three children, who reside on three different continents, must deal with what is left after her death. “Quietly ravishing” — New York Times.