
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 ro... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunSummer Hours is a slow, beautifully photographed film about what we value -- in the emotional and material realms. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickmanages a sense of genuine poignancy that never becomes sticky or sentimental |
| Looking CloserJeffrey OverstreetThe film resonates with emotions as authentic as the details. ... And it asks us to ponder what makes the objects in our lives meaningful. |
| Christianity TodayJosh HurstEchoes of so many other great Binoche movies: The haunted quality of Blue, the meditative tone of Flight of the Red Balloon, even the celebratory mood of Dan in Real Life. |
| Toronto StarGreg QuillPerformances in this small and profoundly eloquent film are superb, yet none redirects attention from Assayas's earnest meditation on the ravaging effects of a shrinking world on family traditions and entrenched personal relationships. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonDeeply moving in its subtle journey through regrets, memories, and the profound affection that inanimate objects can inspire in us... |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonIt's a quiet but heartfelt film that has a lot to say about the allure of the past and the inevitability of change. |
| Movie City NewsMichael WilmingtonOne of my favorites of the year is this wonderful French family ensemble film ... |
| PatheosEve TushnetI love films which capture that atmosphere of late summer, lazy and sultry and shadowed by the coming autumn. So I found this very moving. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA quietly observed Chekhovian drama about the effects of globalization on a French family. |