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The Tournées Festival: L’heure d’été
When: Thu Nov 03 • 7:00 pm
Where: Lecture Center
Olivier Assayas
2008 / 100 min.
After the globe-spanning settings of his last three films, Olivier Assayas returns home for the mournful Summer Hours, examining a bourgeois French family trying to negotiate the past, present, and future. Assayas’s sincere, complex concern about cultural amnesia—the eroding of a nation’s heritage by the demands of the international economy—is rendered so deftly that the theme becomes one of larger, less class-specific importance.
The Tournées Festival was made possible with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Centre National de la Cinématographie. Sponsors include The Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation and highbrow entertainment. Presented by the Liebowitz Center for International Studies. Co-sponsored by the Division of Languages and Literature and the Division of Social Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock.