It's apt that the Rome weather in this stodgy film, contrary to the title, seems quite temperate.
A Burning Hot Summer(Un été brûlant)
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France, Italy, Switzerland · 2011
1h 35m
Director Philippe Garrel
Starring Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Céline Sallette, Jérôme Robart
Genre Drama
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Frédéric and Angèle are a married couple, he a painter, she an actress. On their trip to Rome, they meet Paul and Elisabeth, two struggling actors. Together, the four move into a spacious apartment. Because of their physical proximity, they couldn't help but become closer emotionally...
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There are subtler, more allusive films about stormy conflicts of the heart, but A Burning Hot Summer wisely knows when and how to surgically slice directly to the bone. It's a bad romance of the highest order.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
In A Burning Hot Summer (a pulpy title that sounds better in the original, "Un Été Brûlant), two men fall into friendship, and while little happens, everything is at stake.
Although Angèle's religious faith and Frédéric's belief in luck seem like strained attempts at adding heft to the material, the film nevertheless works up a potent dramatic restlessness, derived from the push-pull between an entitled, obsessive Frédéric and Bellucci's quietly chaotic Angèle.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A Burning Hot Summer failed to persuade me of any reason for its existence.
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