I am sure this movie was shot pretty much at the same time as Red Balloon. Juliette Binoche is the leading acttress of both, however Summer Hours is so much better than Red Baloon, at least so much easier to understand (Is it more artistic to make movies hard to understand for the general public? I just don't understand.)The story starts with grandmother celebrating her 75th birthday. She wants her oldest son to carry out her will. However she also knows that, with her second son working in China and her daughter living in US, the kids will definitely have to sell the old house.
The mother dies, the kids get together again to discuss what is happening in their life, what they'll do with the antiques (some to donate and some to sell), the house, talk what the house means to them (the secnod son and the daugher believe as they spend so much time in other countries, the house and even France will mean less and less to them), taking what they like with them.
At the end of the movie, the old is sold, but they are able to keep it for some more time. The kid gets permission to invite her friends to the house and have a party. Before the kids start the party, the movie shows a consistant feeling of calm, quietness, well, it is a story about old house, antique, artist anyway, so I was really confused why there is a loud party of teenagers trying to tear the house apart. But when the girl takes her boyfriend to the garden and tells him about the time she spent with her grandmother, and what her grandmother said, and the camera moves away, all of a sudden it gives a complicated feeling of a story with 3 generation, and generation by generation.
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