Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours (L'Heure d'Ete)

One of France's most respected contemporary filmmakers Olivier
Assayas (Irma Vep, Clean, Demonlover)
exudes romantic melancholy in Summer Hours, where he
confronts the specter of what happens to the family when the parents
are gone. A lovely suburban house, filled with valuable 20th
century art is left to the children who must decide what to sell and
what it's worth. With the luminous Juliette Binoche as the
Manhattan-based daughter, Charles Berling (The Man of My
Life) as the eldest Parisian son and Jeremie Renier (In
Bruges, Atonement) as the Beijing-based youngest son,
Summer Hours manages to be both timely and timeless in its
concerns.

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