Summer Hours / Criterion Collection#513

Country:France
Studio:Canal+ [fr], Center National de la Cinematographie (CNC), Cofinova 4, France 3 Cinema, Le Musee d'Orsay, MK2 Productions, Region Ile-de-France, Soficinema 3, TPS Star
Genre:Drama, Family
Year of manufacture:2008
Duration:01:43:00
Manufacturer: The Criterion Collection#513
Translation: Professional (multi-voice voice-over) Channel 1 Subtitles: English, Russian Original audio track: French
Premiere (world): 03/5/2008
Director: Olivier Assayas
Screenplay: Olivier Assayas
Producer: Charles Gillibert, Marine Karmitz, Nathanael Karmitz Cinematography: Eric Gautier Design: Fanny Stauffe, Sandrine Mauvezin Editing: Luc Barnier
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond, Valerie Bonneton, Isabelle Sadoyan, Kyle Eastwood, Alice de Lankese, Emile Berling
Description: Sons Frédéric and Jérémie and daughter Adrienne come to her country house for a celebration in honor of Hélène’s 75th birthday. Helen lives exclusively in the memory of her uncle, a famous artist, and thinks that all the stories and memories about him will go away with her. She turns the house into a museum that comes to life only twice a year, when the children come. The latter indifferently look at Corot’s paintings on the walls and shrug their shoulders: “another era.”
After the death of their mother, they need to decide the fate of their inheritance, and it turns out that it has some meaning and value only for Frederick, who wants to leave this house for his family and children. Both active Adrienne, a designer of small items for the home, and Jeremy, a promising manager, do not want to live in France and burden themselves with an unnecessary inheritance. They talk about it exclusively in terms of profit, thinking about how best to dispose of it.
A collective decision is made - to donate the inheritance to the Orsay Museum, not for any charitable reasons, it is simply easier to minimize property taxes. There is no drama; Frederick obediently agrees with the collective decision and does not try to challenge it. But the museum also doubts whether they need this rare furniture, things, paintings.

Disc 1,2:* New high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Olivier Assayas and approved by Assayas and cinematographer Eric Gautier
* New video interview with Assayas
* Making-of documentary featuring interviews with Assayas and actors Charles Berling and Juliette Binoche, and showing the cast and crew on set
* Inventory, an hour-long documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musee d’Orsay, that examines the film’s approach to art
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones
Menu:English, animated, voice-over

Container:DVD-Video
Video:NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR, Auto Letterboxed, 7966 Kbps, 29,970 fps
Audio 1: Russian: AC3, 2 ch, 48.0 KHz, 192 Kbps Professional (multi-voice, voice-over) 1 channel
Audio 2: French: AC3, 6 ch, 48.0 KHz, 448 Kbps (Original)
Subtitle format: prerendered (DVD/IDX+SUB)