Summer Hours (2009)

Kino

Love the Hard Way

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.

Rolling Stone

Rating: NONE

Release Date: May 8, 2009

Running Time: 102 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue French, subtitled English

Country Of Origin: France

starring: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jeremie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond, Valerie Bonneton, Isabelle Sadoyan, Kyle Eastwood, Alice De Lencquesaing, Jean-Baptiste Malartre

director: Olivier Assayas

The divergent paths of three forty-something siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle’s exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly. Left to come to terms with themselves and their differences, Adrienne, a successful New York designer, Frédéric, an economist and university professor in Paris, and Jérémie, a dynamic businessman in China, confront the end of childhood, their shared memories, background and unique vision of the future.

PETER TRAVERS - May 14, 2009

A mother dies. A family gathers to divide the estate and trade memories. Life and death, those persistent cliches, duke it out once more at a country house just outside Paris. From familiar material, writer-director Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Boarding Gate) crafts a near perfect blend of humor and heartbreak, a lyrical masterwork that measures loss in terms practical and evanescent. The great Edith Scob is superb as the seventy-five-year-old widow who furnished the elegant mansion…