#73. Un Été Brûlant
Director: Philippe Garrel
Writer(s): Garrel, Marc Chodolenko and Caroline Deruas
Producers: Edouard Weil (In the Beginning)
Distributor: Rights Available.
The Gist: Un Été Brûlant recounts the torments of a painter whose actress wife has left him. The film will open with the suicide of the male protagonist in a car accident and look back in flashback at their stormy romantic relationship.….(more)
Cast: Monica Bellucci and Louis Garrel.
List Worthy Reasons…: For the record. I don’t care much for Garrel’s work and in his lengthy filmography, I’ve only seen his last three. I do enjoy difficult, French films especially dramas that tackle a strained relationship and told in reverse order. If done right, it picks up the slight changes in the dynamic of the relationship, those cues will be done with very little dialogue in this film.
Release Date/Status?: Cannes fest premiere followed by a sprinkling of festival screenings in the U.S. His last films barely made it into theaters here.
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