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Marie Rivière,
Marie Rivière,
Amira Chemakhi,
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Eric Rohmer,
Eric Rohmer
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: Fox Lorber
: Drama, Foreign, France
: 98 min.
: French
: English
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Summer (Le Rayon Vert) is the fifth of French director Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et Proverbes" movie cycle. Left out of everyone's Summer vacation plans, unhappy Parisian student Marie Riviere (Rohmer's star in all of the "Comedies et Proverbes") accepts an invitation to stay at her friend's empty apartment in Biarritz. Swedish tourist Carita tries to snap Riviere out of her bad mood, but the two ladies are polar opposites in terms of relating to the opposite sex. Carita will take it any way she can, while Riviere holds out for true romance. A mystical assignation tied in with the old Jules Verne novel Le Rayon Vert (The Green Ray) brings Riviere in contact with the man of her dreams (Vincent Gauthier). An international award winner, Summer was surprisingly overlooked in France, where director Rohmer was (in the 1980s at least) somewhat taken for granted. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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| Torture the audience
by dglenn
January 21, 2005 - 11:09 AM PST
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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"Summer" is cinema verite at its worst. The endless uninspired ad libbing might have worked if the characters had anything interesting to say. If the director, Eric Rohmer, had a goal of forcing the audience to experience the ennui and slow boredom of a hot Summer in France he was certainly successful with "Summer".
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| ordinary life
by skybrian
June 26, 2003 - 11:51 PM PDT
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1 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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This is a movie about ordinary real life when nothing much is going on. A woman tries to fight off the blues and boredom and enjoy her vacation, that's all. Things move slowly and there is lots of run-of-the-mill conversation with no background music.
It's a good movie to watch if you're learning French - if mine was a little better I would have turned subtitles off.
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