A Burning Hot Summer
Directed by Philippe Garrel
The stormy relationship between a painter and an Italian film actress is seen through the eyes of another young couple in Philippe Garrel’s latest exploration of twisted emotional ties. An aspiring actor and self-professed revolutionary, Paul is working as an extra when he falls in love with another bit player in the film, the emotionally fragile Elisabeth. Around the same time, Paul meets the painter Frédéric through a mutual friend, and Frédéric soon invites Paul and Elisabeth to Rome to stay with him and his Italian wife. In the heat of a Roman summer, Paul and Elisabeth face the delicate start to their new love while Frédéric and Angele’s begins to implode. Shooting in full color after several productions in black and white, Garrel allows the actors to give full range to the troubled passions that rule and rile their characters. The film was reportedly inspired both by the death of a friend of Garrel’s and by Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt.
Un Été brûlant, France/Italy/Switzerland 2011, 95 mins. Written by Philippe Garrel, Marc Cholodenko, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Photographed by Willy Kurant. Music by John Cale. With Louis Garrel, Monica Bellucci, Jèrôme Robart, Cèline Sallette. IFC Films. In French with subtitles.
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office opens June 14 online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
"A languid, emotionally raw film. Mr. Garrel suggests that there’s something impossible about love, but then he is a Romantic — of a dreamy, melancholic type."
— Manohla Dargis, New York Times
"I have never seen a Garrel film untouched by grace, and A BURNING HOT SUMMER is no exception ... Every micro event beats and trembles with Garrel's absolute deciation to—and consummate skill at—transmitting the rough beauty of people and place from one precious instant to the next."
— Kent Jones, Film Comment
— Manohla Dargis, New York Times
"I have never seen a Garrel film untouched by grace, and A BURNING HOT SUMMER is no exception ... Every micro event beats and trembles with Garrel's absolute deciation to—and consummate skill at—transmitting the rough beauty of people and place from one precious instant to the next."
— Kent Jones, Film Comment
“Exquisitely realized, Garrel’s unmatched abilty to freeze moments in an amber-like eternity is as present as ever.”
— Kevin B Lee, Fandor
“Garrel’s unofficial anagram of Godard’s Contempt lingers both as a tangle of stagnant and fluid yearning and as an intriguing meta-subversion of movie romance.”
— Fernando F. Croce, The House Next Door
— Kevin B Lee, Fandor
“Garrel’s unofficial anagram of Godard’s Contempt lingers both as a tangle of stagnant and fluid yearning and as an intriguing meta-subversion of movie romance.”
— Fernando F. Croce, The House Next Door
Un Été brûlant, France/Italy/Switzerland 2011, 95 mins. Written by Philippe Garrel, Marc Cholodenko, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Photographed by Willy Kurant. Music by John Cale. With Louis Garrel, Monica Bellucci, Jèrôme Robart, Cèline Sallette. IFC Films. In French with subtitles.
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office opens June 14 online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
July 20–26
Showtimes 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00
SF Film Society Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Showtimes 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00
SF Film Society Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)