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Marie Rivière, Amira Chemakhi, Rosette, Béatrice Romand, Sylvia Richez ... see more see more... , Vincent Gauthier , Lisa Heredia , Basile Gervaise , Virginie Gervaise , Rene Hernandez , Dominique Riviere , Laetitia Riviere , Isabelle Riviere , Marcello Pezzutto , Irene Skobline , Eric Hamm , Gerard Quere , Brigitte Poulain , Gerard Leleu , Liliane Leleu , Vanessa Leleu , Huger Foote , Maria Couto-Palos , Isa Bonnet , Yves Doyhamboure , Dr. Friedrich Gunther Christlein , Paulette Christlein , Carita , Marc Vivas , Joel Comarlot , Lene Beyer , Alaric Jullien , Claude Jullien , Philip Rankl , Michael Schech , Barbara vom Baur , Sylvie Richez , Maria Luisa Garcia , Vincent Gauther

Summer (Le Rayon Vert) is the fifth of French director Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et Proverbes" movie cycle. Left out of everyone's Summer vacation plans, unhappy Parisian student Marie Riviere (Rohmer's... read more read more... star in all of the "Comedies et Proverbes") accepts an invitation to stay at her friend's empty apartment in Biarritz. Swedish tourist Carita tries to snap Riviere out of her bad mood, but the two ladies are polar opposites in terms of relating to the opposite sex. Carita will take it any way she can, while Riviere holds out for true romance. A mystical assignation tied in with the old Jules Verne novel Le Rayon Vert (The Green Ray) brings Riviere in contact with the man of her dreams (Vincent Gauthier). An international award winner, Summer was surprisingly overlooked in France, where director Rohmer was (in the 1980s at least) somewhat taken for granted. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Eric Rohmer

Release Date: June 9, 2011

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DVD Release Date: June 8, 1999

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  • SirPant
    March 1, 2012
    SirPant
    I like the idea of this film, the search for the Green Ray and the very modern idea of having no where to go during the holidays and the desperation of loneliness that can lead to (The French are very big on holidays during the summer, everything shuts down - at least it did back... read more in the day). I spent a lot of my youth in France and our lead character goes to all the holiday destination I used to go to, in fact I was in Biarritz when this was filmed it seems, so 5 out of 5 for personal nostalgia but unfortunately I felt no empathy for Marie and once again Rohmer skips the character development at the expense of the film.
  • machinemolle
    August 17, 2008
    machinemolle
    Wonderfully deft comedy (in the loosest sense) of misery, with a depth of characterization more common to life than to the arts.

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Richard Brody
June 6, 2011
Richard Brody, New Yorker

Eric Rohmer's 1986 drama may be the finest example of his supple and prickly artistry. Full Review

Vincent Canby
May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times

Summer initially seems slight, but it's a movie of uncommon sensitivity and emotional reserves. Full Review

Charles Taylor
January 1, 2000
Charles Taylor, Salon.com

Along with My Night at Maud's, the movie is one of Rohmer's masterpieces. It is also, in its small, stubborn way, one of the bravest movies I know. Full Review

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

If Eric Rohmer were basing a film on your diary, he would only use the entries where you observe that nothing much happened. He is interested in the times between the big moments, the times when bored... Full Review

Beverly Berning
May 20, 2012
Beverly Berning, culturevulture.net

I've seen "Le rayon vert" at least five times, and when I saw it again a few days ago, the beauty of its complex structure struck me once again, combining as it does the rationalism of moral convictio... Full Review

Gabe Leibowitz
July 9, 2011
Gabe Leibowitz, Film and Felt

It's as if we ourselves are observing life, learning and evolving with Delphine. Full Review

Dan Callahan
June 9, 2011
Dan Callahan, House Next Door

Delphine is the sort of person who would rather be unhappy than compromise her own expectations of life; this is a woman who's idea of beach reading is Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. Full Review

Keith Uhlich
June 8, 2011
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

Now here's a summer movie to get excited about. Full Review

Bill Weber
June 6, 2011
Bill Weber, Slant Magazine

Eric Rohmer's comedy, one of his best, follows a lonely Parisian secretary as her quest for a transcendent July vacation becomes stalled in misadventure and self-doubt. Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson
June 6, 2008
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

[Rohmer's] persistence gets just underneath Delphine's surface, finding her painful, anxious self-doubt; we keep rooting for her to rise above it, rather than succumbing. Full Review

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