Summer Hours (L’Heure d’ete)

Indie-Foreign
2.5 stars
Tedious to watch. French with subtitles. A 75 year old woman prepares her 3 grown children to sell her gorgeous country estate after she dies. Most of the movie is spent itemizing the valuable paintings, furniture, etc. to prepare for sale, which I found dull. I had expected this film to be about a house full of cherished memories and flashbacks much like Russell Crowe’s A Good Year, but it really just should have been titled “Death of a Home”. Most depressing was how her grandchildren decided to throw a party which felt like a desecration of her memory. Go rent A Good Year.