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The Taste of Things
Why this pick
Like Summer Hours, it finds profound emotion in cultivated domestic rituals, material objects, and the quiet passage of time, with an elegant, unhurried visual tenderness.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2008 1h 40m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its coolly precise attention to class, family spaces, and memory echoes Assayas’s interest in how environments and possessions quietly shape intimate lives.
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A Christmas Tale
Why this pick
For Summer Hours’ sophisticated French family texture: a gathering exposes generations of affection, resentment, inheritance, and history with warmth alongside sharp emotional complexity.
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Still Walking
Why this pick
A single family visit becomes a delicately layered study of absence, obligation, and time, told through everyday conversation and meticulously observed household detail.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Edith Scob
Hélène
Juliette Binoche
Adrienne
Charles Berling
Frédéric
Dominique Reymond
Lisa
Valérie Bonneton
Angela