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10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)

Director: Jules Dassin

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From Time Out Film Guide

Nobody had a good word to say for this adaptation of Marguerite Duras' novel which, though a potentially good script (by Duras and Dassin), is treated so heavily that it becomes risible. Finch and Schneider play a couple deciding whether to or not, while Finch's alcoholic wife (Mercouri) goes bananas to the point of being obsessed by a local crime passionel. Much of the blame can be attributed directly to Mercouri's barnstorming performance, though the inappropriately tarted-up Spanish postcard settings don't help either. Strange that a director like Dassin, who spearheaded the neo-realist movement in Hollywood after World War II, should look so completely out of touch with any level of reality in later years.

Author: CPe

Time Out Film Guide

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  • Harry Lime said...
    Posted on Mar 13 2008 23:20 A brilliant, scary, fierce, illuminating movie set in a world of sun and stone. The film's themes and how they are played out go way over the head of most reviewers -at the timne because both Dassin and Duras were misunderstood and now because the "blog" posters have had no adult experiences. One of the best films of the last midcentury. Harrowing. The relationship between the two women is extraordinarily delineated. Finch is superb. The little girl is amazing. The VO dialogue isn't silly, it's meant as all Duras dialogue: unfiltered, lucid, psychic raving and confession. The film is to Neo-Realism as Pierrot le Fou is to Neo-Realism.
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Cast & crew

Director: Jules Dassin

Producer: Jules Dassin, Anatole Litvak

Cast: Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch, Julián Mateos, Beatríz Savón full cast

Duration: 85 mins


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