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IFC Films
Directed by: Olivier Assayas
Featuring: Juliette Binoche
Universally acclaimed by critics, the multiple award-winning Summer Hours is the great contemporary French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s most personal film to date. Three siblings, played by Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie Rénier, must decide what to do with the country estate and objects they’ve inherited from their mother. From this simple story, Assayas creates an exquisitely nuanced drama about the material of globalized modern living. Naturalistic and unsentimental, Summer Hours is that rare film that pays respect to family by treating it with honesty.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
French Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Booklet
- New video interview with Olivier Assayas
- Making-of documentary featuring interviews with Olivier 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 Musée d’Orsay, that examines the film’s approach to art
- A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Kent Jones
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Release Credits
Producer: Kim Hendrickson
Artwork: Michael Boland
Release Notes on Restoration
Summer Hours
Summer Hours is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Black bars at the top and the bottom of the screen are normal for this format. Supervised by director Olivier Assayas and approved by Assayas and cinematographer Eric Gautier, this new high-definition digital transfer was created from an interpositive.
The film features a fully digital surround track. The audio for this release was mastered at 24-bit from the original digital audio master files using Pro Tools HD.
The film features a fully digital surround track. The audio for this release was mastered at 24-bit from the original digital audio master files using Pro Tools HD.