Summer Hours (2008)
Directed by Olivier Assayas
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
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Reminiscent of Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours , Call Me by Your Name fills in its details with lush photography of the beautiful environs in which our protagonists struggle with societal influences, sexual urges, and the challenging task of growing up in a world of foreign beauty and differing social mores.
So, the filmmaker Olivier Assayas makes a beautiful, poetic film called Summer Hours, which ends up among the handful of movies most celebrated by critics in 2009.
So, the filmmaker Olivier Assayas makes a beautiful, poetic film called Summer Hours, which ends up among the handful of movies most celebrated by critics in 2009.
This is most clearly born out in 2008's Summer Hours , where family heirlooms seem to contain some essence of their past owners.
But while Personal Shopper isn’t quite up to the level of Assayas’ greatest—this is no Summer Hours or Carlos—it makes far more sense in the execution than it does in the explanation.
Written and directed by cinema-besotted Assayas (“Irma Vep,” “Summer Hours”), “Personal Shopper” tells the story of Maureen Cartwright (Stewart), a young American working as an assistant to a diva socialite-philanthropist named Kyra (Nora von Waldstatten) in Paris.
The new film by Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Summer Hours) follows Maureen (Kristen Stewart), who works in Paris as the eponymous personal shopper for an egocentric A-list actress.
To watch a triple bill of “Irma Vep,” “Demonlover” and “Summer Hours,” to name three of his more memorable works, is to embark on a six-hour journey from the playful to the sublime by way of the completely deranged.
Assayas, whose previous credits include “Irma Vep,” “Summer Hours” and “Clouds of Sils Maria,” continues to explore issues of death and mortality, and depict foreigners in Paris, in this English-language drama featuring “Clouds” costar Kristen Stewart.