Summer Hours (DVD)

Summer Hours is a new French artsy film directed by Olivier Assayas, a Parisian director and son of the famous Jacques Remy. The leading actress is Juliet Binoche - my favourite actress of all time. Olivier Assayas is well known to fans of world cinema but not probably so much to Multiplex cinema fans. He is a director who has followed in the footsteps of great French directors such as Francois Truffat, Jean Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol but also of Agnes Varda and Alain Resnais. He is a director who has been influenced also by Asian cinema and likes to have a great deal of creative control and this is why Summer Hours belongs to him as a director rather than ...  Read the complete review