"Summer hours" is a family drama which may aspire to be deep and inspirational, but has not been greeted with too much success mainly due to the lack of a real plot and coherent structures bonding the bits and pieces.
The technique of demonstrating the difficulty in passing virtues or anything from generation to generation by portraying various unlovable characters may find its point and maybe, some success, but probably makes viewers a bit uncomfortable during the viewing. Indeed the linkage of relationships between generations is rather weak and could have been much more elaborate.
The ending sequence of the third generation holding a party with loud rock music in the house is a bit random and may blur the focus of the film. The eventual expression of sadness by the grand-daughter may even seem slightly out of place as we don't really know much history between herself and the house (we were told about her propensity to certain bad behaviour though). And numerous parts of the film reminded me of a more successful member of the same genre - "My favourite season" (just found out even the names of the 2 movies are quite similar). This really leads to a justifiable contrast in favour of the older member I presume.
The technique of demonstrating the difficulty in passing virtues or anything from generation to generation by portraying various unlovable characters may find its point and maybe, some success, but probably makes viewers a bit uncomfortable during the viewing. Indeed the linkage of relationships between generations is rather weak and could have been much more elaborate.
The ending sequence of the third generation holding a party with loud rock music in the house is a bit random and may blur the focus of the film. The eventual expression of sadness by the grand-daughter may even seem slightly out of place as we don't really know much history between herself and the house (we were told about her propensity to certain bad behaviour though). And numerous parts of the film reminded me of a more successful member of the same genre - "My favourite season" (just found out even the names of the 2 movies are quite similar). This really leads to a justifiable contrast in favour of the older member I presume.
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