L'heure d'été (2008)
(Summer Hours)
Country: FR
Technical: col 103m
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob
Synopsis:
At a family reunion for her 75th birthday, an art collector and former artist's muse instructs her son in how to dispose of the assets. But his dreams of keeping the house and heirlooms in the family are to meet with disappointment.
Review:
An interesting film coming when it did in that it addressed the very timely notion that with people fanning out across the world in pusuit of their career, the idea of maintaining a property in the mother country for the use of all becomes an impractical ideal to achieve, rendered harder by the question of inheritance tax in this case. It packs no punches and yields few surprises but is acted truthfully and intelligently by its cast, particularly Berling.
(Summer Hours)
Country: FR
Technical: col 103m
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob
Synopsis:
At a family reunion for her 75th birthday, an art collector and former artist's muse instructs her son in how to dispose of the assets. But his dreams of keeping the house and heirlooms in the family are to meet with disappointment.
Review:
An interesting film coming when it did in that it addressed the very timely notion that with people fanning out across the world in pusuit of their career, the idea of maintaining a property in the mother country for the use of all becomes an impractical ideal to achieve, rendered harder by the question of inheritance tax in this case. It packs no punches and yields few surprises but is acted truthfully and intelligently by its cast, particularly Berling.
(Summer Hours)
Country: FR
Technical: col 103m
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob
Synopsis:
At a family reunion for her 75th birthday, an art collector and former artist's muse instructs her son in how to dispose of the assets. But his dreams of keeping the house and heirlooms in the family are to meet with disappointment.
Review:
An interesting film coming when it did in that it addressed the very timely notion that with people fanning out across the world in pusuit of their career, the idea of maintaining a property in the mother country for the use of all becomes an impractical ideal to achieve, rendered harder by the question of inheritance tax in this case. It packs no punches and yields few surprises but is acted truthfully and intelligently by its cast, particularly Berling.