L'heure d'été

A French family drama from Olivier Assayas has bigger things on its mind.

Summer Hours" opens, as so many French films do, with a major family reunion at a marvelous old house in the country. But while the setting is familiar, even Chekhovian, what writer-director Olivier Assayas does with it is not.
Assayas, whose credits include "Clean," "Demonlover" and "Irma Vep," is not the type to do things as usual, or even do anything classically French. So it is a pleasant surprise to see him working in a naturalistic form but bringing his own particular sensibility to it. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (3996 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 29 maggio 2009