Summer Hours (2008)

Highly Recommended

France
Feature Film
Original Title: L'heure d'été
Writer/Director: Olivier Assayas
Cinematographer: Eric Gautier
Cast: Charles Berling, Edith Scob, Jeremie Renier, Juliette Binoche, Dominique Reymond, Valérie Bonneton, Isabelle Sadoyan, Alice de Lencquesaing, Emile Berling

Depicting a family’s efforts to come to terms with the death of its popular matriarch, this gorgeous return to form from Assayas proves to be a beautiful, naturalistic, insightful, and very moving exploration of the passing of time and the transience of art, familial relationships, and traditions. Iain.Stott