Director: Olivier Assayas •
Cast: Juliette • Binoche, Charles Berling •
Release date: 2008 July 18 (France)
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recommendation Index: ★★★★★☆ One
sentence comment: A timeless European humanities sketch that touches the most tender corner of the heart, a little painful, but very real.
Lazy sunshine, quaint houses, exquisite courtyards, beautiful rocking chairs, artistic gems that can be seen everywhere, "Summer Time" is facing the familiar European culture. Although it is just the seemingly most casual and ordinary picture in life, it captures the touching places in life and restores the essence of life in a delicate and true manner.
The mother passed away with an unspeakable secret. In addition to preserving a large number of works as an artist's uncle, she also left behind the art treasures collected by generations of the family, such as Mary's desk, the vase from 1870, and Corot. His paintings—how to deal with these precious heritages, are placed in front of the three children: the brother hopes to stay and keep all the art treasures in the old house as a unique memory of the family, while the younger brothers and sisters Advocating donations to sell, donating them to museums, or auctioning them, to the so-called people who know them better.
A topic about the inheritance of the family's artistic heritage reflects a deep reflection on art and culture. There is no way to determine which is right and which is wrong. Compared with the mother who treats these artworks as traces of life and records the good memories of the past, what the brother who insists on keeping the works is the responsibility of the family, it is not that he really loves art, and the younger brothers and sisters no longer want to bear it. At the same time as the high maintenance cost, I hope to make my life richer through these artworks. The three brothers and sisters, no matter who they are, don’t have much deep feelings for these artistic heritages—they don’t love them as much as their mothers. These artworks.
In fact, further analysis shows that such a controversial choice is inevitable. The elder brother in Paris is engaged in economic research that has nothing to do with the art career; the younger brother who is a sports brand settled his family in Beijing and chose to develop his career in China. The sister of the designer works in Japan and gets married in New York... People have completely different life experiences. When mothers become the only bond that maintains this family relationship, and once this bond is broken and disappeared, the inevitable result of value reconstruction is the re-division of interests.
So for the three brothers and sisters, instead of letting these artworks become a heavy burden in their own hands, or being treated at will or even unintentionally destroyed, it is better to send them to a museum to at least guarantee the integrity of the artworks. Maybe, this is also right. These artworks are the best salvation.
Although there is nothing wrong with this approach, when these cultural heritage is put into a museum, like imprisoned life, it becomes a certain kind of doctrine, or is labeled with a certain genre, but loses what the item itself should be. Function: The vase that was later placed in the museum, a lot of words are explaining and interpreting its value, and a large group of viewers are enjoying it. In fact, for this vase, its greatest value is in family gatherings When it is full of flowers. The museum can only retain the body of the artwork, but it cannot retain the life experience of this artwork, nor can it reproduce the memories loaded with the artwork. In addition to appreciation in a museum, is there a better way to preserve the life of an artwork? As an object, is the artistic value more important or the practical value more important? Is it helpless or lucky to destroy art by preserving it?
Through the encounter with these artworks, the film's unobtrusiveness aroused the audience to think about deeper themes, how to resolve the conflicts and confrontations between internationalization and traditional culture. The children in the family are accustomed to speaking English at school. The works will only become more international when they arrive in the United States. The ancestral houses are sold... The superiority and pride that France is proud of suddenly become so insignificant. This loss not only makes France. There will be encounters, and every country will encounter the inheritance and continuation of traditional culture under the impact of the modern wave. The crisis of art and culture is more violent and more subtle than we imagined.
The film is like a timeless European humanities sketch. Director Assayas enters from a small incision and uses the most plain lens to show us a kind of anxiety, anxiety and helplessness towards the inheritance and continuation of traditional culture, and a touch of sadness. It is in contrast with the bright summer sun. This cultural sigh touches the most tender corner of my heart, a bit painful, but very real.
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