Summer
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Actor: Amira Chemakhi, Basile Gervaise, María Luisa García, Marie Rivière, Sylvie RichezDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-06-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Fox Lorber
DVD Reviews of Summer
DVD Review: Essential French cinema: Rohmer's 'Le Rayon vert.'
Summary: 5 Stars
Éric Rohmer (1920) first challenged traditional Hollywood cinema with his French New Wave cycle of films, Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales - Criterion Collection, which he completed in 1972 before commencing another six-film cycle, "Comedies and Proverbs," each based on a different proverb.
Inspired by Jules Verne's 1882 novel, The Green Ray, and based on the proverb, "Ah, for the days/that set our hearts ablaze," Summer (Le Rayon vert) (1986) is the fifth in Rohmer's insightful "Comedies & Proverbs" film series. In Verne's novel, characters stare at the horizon in Scotland, attempting to observe the sun's green ray at sunset (a rare optical phenomenon), only to find love in each other's eyes instead. In Rohmer's film, after moping around Paris, gloomy Delphine (Marie Rivière) unexpectedly finds true love on her solo summer vacation. Although she is reluctant to travel alone, the Parisian secretary travels to Cherbourg, to the Alps, and to the beach, reading Dostoyevski's The Idiot along the way, and always on the verge of self-pitying tears. Wanting to remain "pure," when it comes to relationships with men, Delphine sets high standards for herself, and is unwilling to settle for anything less. At the Biarritz train station she meets a young man who is traveling to Saint-Jean-de-Luz. She impulsively goes there with him (in a scene reminiscent of Before Sunset) and together they fall in love in front of the warm glow of sunset while watching for le rayon vert (the green ray). (This film will appeal to solo travelers and to those who haven't given up on true love, alike.)
Summer is Rohmer at his best. Smart, sensitive, and engaging, this nearly perfect seaside-romantic-comedy is among my favorite Rohmer films, and a good starting point for anyone new to the genius of Rohmer. Rich in relationship dialogue, like many of Rohmer's films, Summer demonstrates how the course of love never did run smooth. Hopefully Criterion will remaster Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series, and then offer it as a boxed collection similar its "Six Moral Tales" boxed set.
G. Merritt
Description of Summer
Gloomy young Parisian Delphine (Marie Rivière) faces her summer alone when her best friend cancels their travel plans to stay with her new boyfriend. Determined to have her vacation, she tries a number of alternatives but feels left out at a family retreat, runs into a former lover at a ski resort, and becomes completely cowed by her unlikely companion on the French shore, an uninhibited Swedish vacationer who sunbathes nude and picks up men for one night stands---a far cry from the insecure Delphine. Willowy Rivière plays Delphine with a combination of romantic idealism, headstrong determination, and uncompromising (often debilitating) demands, an impossible standard that leaves her lonely and wanting until she meets a handsome young man at the train station on her way back to Paris. The two become charmed by one another and, giddy with anticipation, Delphine insists they watch the setting sun to see the legendary green ray (the French title of the film is "Le Rayon Vert") in an ephemeral conclusion both magical and tenderly human. Rohmer changed his shooting style completely for the fifth film in his "Comedies and Proverbs" series, creating the characters in collaboration with the actors and shooting with only a script outline to create a largely improvised portrait of Delphine, but the easy rhythms, the gentle naturalism, and Rohmer's genuine affection for his characters, foibles and all, continue in his tradition of smart, sensitive, and delightfully witty romantic comedies. --Sean AxmakerBestsellers in DVD
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