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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Philippe Garrel’s That Summer

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.

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#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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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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