Summer Hours (L'heure d'ete)Three generations of the Malry family gather in a rambling French country house to celebrate the 75th birthday of their elegant matriarch, Helene (Edith Scob).
Intent on preserving a nineteenth century art collection after she is gone, Helene confides her wishes to her eldest son Frederic.
In the wake of her passing, Frederic and his two siblings, Adrienne and Jeremie, must find a way to balance their sentimental attachment to the past with a not unfeeling pragmatism in the face of inevitable change and the circumstances of their modern lives.
"Feels like a Chekhov play and resonates like a Schubert quartet; a work of singular loveliness." Wall Street Journal
"A graceful, lyrical thoroughly engrossing examination of morality and memory" The Age
