Summer Hours (2008)
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From left, Jérémie Renier, Juliette Binoche and Charles Berling portray three siblings deciding what to do with the family heirlooms in “Summer Hours.”
Sorting Out an Inheritance: Three Siblings Dissect the Stuff of Life
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: May 15, 2009
In a literal, almost banal sense, Olivier Assayas’s “Summer Hours” is a movie about an inheritance. Hélène Berthier (Edith Scob), a silver-haired matriarch enthroned among her children and grandchildren at the beginning of the film, leaves behind a charming country house and a cherished art collection, and her heirs, as is normal, must figure out what to do with it all after her death. More
