Summer Hours (2008) starring Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jeremie Renier, Edith Scob. When the matriarch (Scob) of a French clan dies, her children (Binoche, Berling and Renier) must decide how to deal with her estate -- which includes a country house and a substantial art collection. Their decision is complicated by the fact that only one of them (Berling) lives in France. One son (Renier) lives in China, and the daughter (Binoche) lives in New York. Meanwhile, the son who lives in France starts having trouble with his daughter. This film shares a common flaw of foreign films, in that when a character speaks in English, even if in heavily French-accented English, the subtitles stop. Ironically, when the characters speak in English, that is when the movie is hardest to understand and follow. Otherwise, the subtitles are fine. Grade: B+
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