#3. SUMMER HOURS
You’d have to scale back to Y2K’s Les destinées sentimentales for the last time these two worked together, but what a perfectly timed “family reunion” for the French combo. Summer Hours is presented as an ensemble (kids, neighbors and appraisers flooding the frame), but in a subtle, almost unassuming lead role, Charles Berling plays the eldest of the siblings who earnestly wants to do things right with the family inheritance and tree. It’s the type of role that doesn’t point to itself – and is one of the additional factors as to why critics thought so highly of the film. Assayas should use the actor more often.
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