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Summer Things

2002 · 103 min

A wry, bittersweet ensemble comedy of manners where sunlit holidays expose the quiet desperation and tangled affairs of the French bourgeoisie.

Overview
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...

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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • betrayal
  • family
  • identity
  • love
Places
  • big city
  • sea
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, romance
Directed by
Michel Blanc
Written by
Michel Blanc
Starring
Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Denis Podalydès, Karin Viard, Clotilde Courau, Vincent Elbaz
Cinematography
Sean Bobbitt
Runtime
103 min
Country
France, Italy, United Kingdom
Languages
German, Italian, French, English

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