Summer Things
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58% Critic Match

Summer Things

5.8 / 10 2002 1h 43mNR French
ComedyDramaRomance

Storyline

Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...

Cast & Crew

Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling

Elizabeth Lannier

Lead
Jacques Dutronc

Jacques Dutronc

Bertrand Lannier

Michel Blanc

Michel Blanc

Jean-Pierre

Carole Bouquet

Carole Bouquet

Lulu

Denis Podalydès

Denis Podalydès

Jérôme

Karin Viard

Karin Viard

Véro

Clotilde Courau

Clotilde Courau

Julie

Vincent Elbaz

Vincent Elbaz

Maxime

What People Are Saying

3.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Michel Blanc's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Summer Things is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker