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The 46th New York Film Festival Has Begun!
ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories — ... marks the French actress and filmmaker's return playing a feminist novelist who's thinking of getting into politics. Meanwhile, her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri plays a filmmaker looking to make a documentary about her. It will play at the Ziegfeld on Friday, October 10 and Sunday, October 12. We've interviewed French iconoclast Olivier Assayas a few times in the last few years, so we're excited to see him bringing his new movie Summer Hours (Oct. 1 and 2) to the festival. It's a drama about three siblings (Charles Berling, Juliet Binoche, Jerémie Rénier) who come together ...

NYFF. Summer Hours.
GreenCine Daily — "Olivier Assayas has said that his intention with Summer Hours [site] was to return home and make a “French film” in the wake of his globetrotting trilogy of demonlover, Clean and Boarding Gate," notes Jeff Reichert in Reverse Shot. "[H]e doesn't seek to dampen the bustle of everyday life and contain it with his camera, rather, like Hou Hsiao-hsien he reacts to the rhythms of a gathering with deft sensitivity. This setup is all very universal in its generalities, but ...