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Summer Hours / L’heure d’été Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Olivier Assayas, Country: France, Release: 2008, Runtime: 103 How much or how little are we obliged to honor the wishes of our parents after they’re gone? This is the painful question posed by Olivier Assayas in his rueful and wise new film. The marvelous Edith Scob, once the muse of director Georges Franju, is the troubled family matriarch with children scattered across the globe — one in Paris, one in New York, a third in Shanghai. She lives alone in the family’s country house and spends the bulk of her time worrying over the legacy of her uncle, a legendary artist. After her sudden death, the siblings (Charles Berling, Juliette Binoche and Jerémie Rénier) meet to discuss practical details, prompting some of the most moving passages in Assayas’s entire body of work. Only the greatest filmmakers have found such a balance between the heaviness of loss and the lightness of time’s passage. Every moment of this wonderful film is imbued with sadness, and joy; despair, and illumination. An IFC Films release. Preceded by Ralph: Adrift in Marseille, Ralph finds that a missed telephone connection is the best thing to happen to him all day. Alex Winckler, UK, 2008; 14m. Olivier Assayas b. 1955, Paris, France 2008 Eldorado (TV) 2007 To Each His Cinema (segment: Recrudescence) 2007 Boarding Gate 2006 Noise 2006 Paris, je t’aime (segment: Quartier des Enfants Rouges) 2004 Clean 2002 Demonlover 2000 Les Destinées 1998 Late August, Early September NYFF 1996 Irma Vep NYFF 1994 Cold Water 1993 A New Life 1991 Paris Awakens 1989 Winter’s Child 1986 Disorder

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