A remarkable film from director Olivier Assayas on a subject I've never seen dealt with before: What to do with the objects of a parent when that parent dies. I've seen many films that deal with the grief of a parent passing but so much of this film is specifically about the grown childrens' decisions regarding a house and the furniture and artwork in it. It's both sentimental and unsentimental, mysterious and straightforward. And though the film is short it has all these great tangents in it, including a backstage tour of the Musee D'Orsay. As soon as I finished watching this I began to look forward to watching it again. If Inglourious Basterds had not come out this year, this would have been my favorite of 2009.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Summer Hours (2009)
A remarkable film from director Olivier Assayas on a subject I've never seen dealt with before: What to do with the objects of a parent when that parent dies. I've seen many films that deal with the grief of a parent passing but so much of this film is specifically about the grown childrens' decisions regarding a house and the furniture and artwork in it. It's both sentimental and unsentimental, mysterious and straightforward. And though the film is short it has all these great tangents in it, including a backstage tour of the Musee D'Orsay. As soon as I finished watching this I began to look forward to watching it again. If Inglourious Basterds had not come out this year, this would have been my favorite of 2009.
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Can't wait to watch it. I just added it to our queue. Are you going to jump on the Roku bandwagon?
ReplyDeleteYour late night, post-party comments are so lucid. How much is roku?
ReplyDeleteWe got ours as a gift. But maybe $50-$100. Totally worth it thought.
ReplyDeleteI don't mean to be pushy but lets stop messing around: its 2010 now-where's your favorite movies of the 00's list?
I mean "though"...
ReplyDelete$80 plus shipping. It could be just the device to get rid of cable for good. You can stream live MLB games live and sync your Pandora account too.
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