A Burning Hot Summer

2011

1 hr. 35 min.

Drama

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55%

11 Reviews

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24%

1,000+ Ratings

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Paul (Jérôme Robart) reflects on the summer he met Angèle (Monica Bellucci) and Frédéric (Louis Garrel) as he watches his friend being laid to rest.

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Un été brûlant [2012]

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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In "A Burning Hot Summer," Paul(Jerome Robart) meets and falls in love with Elisabeth(Celine Sallette) while both are day players on a movie about World War I. Soon after, they visit Paul's friend Frederic(Louis Garrel), an artist, and Frederic's wife Angele(Monica Bellucci), in Rome. And that's pretty much it for any kind of story with "A Burning Hot Summer." In fact, the only kind of drama involves a huge rat, as everybody sits pretentiously around while waiting for the inevitable to happen. I mean this movie is so slow I thought my DVD player was skipping a couple of times but alas no.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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A boring cokehead painter. Why would anybody ever want to be his friend, except some pennyless freeloaders?

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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A French film starring the sensually titillating Monica Bullucci as "Angele" an actor married to "Frederic" (Louis Garrel) a mediocre, dissipated artist; chemistry between the two is neither "hot" nor "burning", just boring. Frederick invites his best friend "Paul" (Jerome Robart) and his partner "Elizabeth" (Celine Sallette) to spend the summer with him and Angele; instead of the plot thickening it is diluted, thinned in trying tedium and triteness. I gleefully exited into a real and much more viable "burning hot summer", preferring the heat to this vapid scenario; questioning, puzzling why this film was ever made? ONE & 1/2 STARS! For Now.....Peneflix!

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Devia ter oitro titulo menos instigante e mais realista

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Nem o Garrel salva os filmes do pai. E o pior Ã (C) que eu jÃ¡ sabia.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Philippe Garrel

Director

Monica Bellucci

Angèle

Louis Garrel

Frédéric

Céline Sallette

Élisabeth

Jérôme Robart

Paul

Vladislav Galard

Roland

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Kent Jones

Film Comment Magazine

I have never seen a Garrel film untouched by grace, and A Burning Hot Summer is no exception.

Nov 5, 2013

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Walter V. Addiego

San Francisco Chronicle

While I have to acknowledge Garrel's skill, the film, which actually has its compelling moments, falls somewhat flat.

Rated: 2/4

Jul 20, 2012

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Drew Hunt

Chicago Reader

Garrel's work is indebted to silent cinema style, but his recent films have shown a real flair for dialogue too.

Jul 13, 2012

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Fernando F. Croce

House Next Door

Though shot in swanky color, the film retains the alternately trying and invigorating starkness of the director's recent, black-and-white efforts.

Sep 12, 2011

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Synopsis

Paul (Jérôme Robart) reflects on the summer he met Angèle (Monica Bellucci) and Frédéric (Louis Garrel) as he watches his friend being laid to rest.

Director: Philippe Garrel
Screenwriter: Marc Cholodenko, Philippe Garrel, Caroline Deruas-Garrel
Production Co: Rectangle Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 29, 2016

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