|
Summer Hours
(2008)
|
| Watch Trailer 0Share... |
User Lists
Related lists from IMDb users
Share this Rating
Title: Summer Hours (2008)
Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.
Learn more
People who liked this also liked...
Flight of the Red Balloon
(2007)
Drama
|
Family
Director:
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Stars:
Juliette Binoche,
Hippolyte Girardot,
Simon Iteanu
Whale Rider
(2002)
Drama
|
Family
Director:
Niki Caro
Stars:
Keisha Castle-Hughes,
Rawiri Paratene,
Vicky Haughton
Oliver Twist
(2005)
Crime
|
Drama
Director:
Roman Polanski
Stars:
Barney Clark,
Jeremy Swift,
Ian McNeice
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
(2009)
Drama
|
Family
Director:
Lasse Hallström
Stars:
Richard Gere,
Joan Allen,
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
The Color of Paradise
(1999)
Drama
|
Family
Director:
Majid Majidi
Stars:
Hossein Mahjoub,
Mohsen Ramezani,
Salameh Feyzi
Martian Child
(2007)
Comedy
|
Drama
|
Family
Director:
Menno Meyjes
Stars:
John Cusack,
Bobby Coleman,
Amanda Peet
Drama
|
Family
Director:
Patricia Rozema
Stars:
Abigail Breslin,
Julia Ormond,
Joan Cusack
The Girl
(2009)
Drama
|
Family
Director:
Fredrik Edfeldt
Stars:
Blanca Engström,
Shanti Roney,
Annika Hallin
The White Balloon
(1995)
Drama
|
Family
Director:
Jafar Panahi
Stars:
Aida Mohammadkhani,
Mohsen Kafili,
Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
Finding Neverland
(2004)
Biography
|
Drama
|
Family
Director:
Marc Forster
Stars:
Johnny Depp,
Kate Winslet,
Julie Christie
Son of Rambow
(2007)
Action
|
Adventure
|
Comedy
Director:
Garth Jennings
Stars:
Bill Milner,
Jessica Hynes,
Anna Wing
Drama
|
Family
Director:
Takashi Yamazaki
Stars:
Maki Horikita,
Hidetaka Yoshioka,
Shin'ichi Tsutsumi
Edit
Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Juliette Binoche | ... | ||
| Charles Berling | ... |
Frédéric
|
|
| Jérémie Renier | ... |
Jérémie
|
|
| Edith Scob | ... |
Hélène
|
|
 |
Dominique Reymond | ... |
Lisa
|
|
|
Valérie Bonneton | ... |
Angela
|
|
|
Isabelle Sadoyan | ... |
Éloïse
|
| Kyle Eastwood | ... |
James
|
|
|
|
Alice de Lencquesaing | ... |
Sylvie
|
|
|
Emile Berling | ... |
Pierre
|
|
|
Jean-Baptiste Malartre | ... |
Michel Waldemar
|
|
|
Gilles Arbona | ... |
Maître Lambert
|
| Eric Elmosnino | ... |
Le commissaire de police
|
|
|
|
Marc Voinchet | ... |
Présentateur radio
|
|
|
Sara Martins | ... |
Atachée de presse
|
Edit
Plot Summary
|
Add Synopsis
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. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Parents Guide:
View content advisory »
Edit
See more »
See full technical specs »
Details
Country:
FranceRelease Date:
5 March 2008 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Summer Hours See more »Box Office
Budget:
€4,400,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$49,484 (USA) (15 May 2009)Gross:
$1,641,025 (USA) (21 August 2009)Company Credits
Show detailed
company contact information
on
IMDbPro »
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Sound Mix:
Dolby DigitalColor:
ColorAspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Edit
See more »
Did You Know?
Goofs
The shape of Adrienne's apple and the discoloration marks from oxidization change repeatedly during the conversation with her brothers. See more »Quotes
Éloïse: He said to choose anything. l couldn't take advantage. l took something ordinary. What would l do with something valuable?See more »
Hélène Berthier, niece of a famous painter, receive her children and grand children for her birthday, and take this opportunity to talk about her death, and what will happen to her uncle's collection. Once dead, Frederic, her elder son think that they'll keep the house as it his, but his brother and sister don't live in France anymore and think that it would more intelligent to sell. When I was expecting the family to be destroyed around this heritage, nothing like that happens, they all accept and the rarity in the 21 century of families having things that could belong to museums takes an end. This film is extremely beautiful, for many reasons. First because it can touch everyone who lost someone and saw what was theirs, being sold and put in many places. Then this film is beautiful because it shows also how everyone accepts that but also suffers from what they can't keep together: family, past, heritage! To me it shows better than any Amelie, or La Vie en Rose what being French means: being thorn between the heritage of a culture and an appeal of modernity, wanting to keep your roots alive and spread toward the world. This is funny how this thought came through my mind "Why do they want to live in Beijing or New York?" suddenly being in the film, that seemed weird to me when I just lived two years and a half in London, and probably won't stay in my old country forever. The actors are great, Edith Scob playing the extremely classy Hélène, and Charles Berling, Jeremy Regnier and Juliette Binoche are very touching and human. It's important to say, that the object are also characters in this story, and it's scary at the end to see them in the museum d'Orsay, how they lost life or are recovering some. It's important to say that this film was a project with the museum, and I think that it is brilliant to make us pay attention to the details of these objects when generally we're not. Question: is art made for museum or to live with it? People wouldn't try to steal them from museum if the answer was museums… If you want to see my other critics: http://www.silverparticules.blogspot.com