Summer Things

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Summer Things
Embrassez qui vous voudrez poster.jpg
French theatrical release poster
French Embrassez qui vous voudrez
Directed by Michel Blanc
Written byMichel Blanc
Based onSummer Things
by Joseph Connolly
Produced byYves Marmion
Starring
Cinematography Sean Bobbitt
Edited byMaryline Monthieux
Music by Mark Russell
Production
companies
Mercury Film Productions
Dan Films
Alia Film
France 2 Cinéma
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 9 October 2002 (2002-10-09)(France) [1]
  • 31 October 2002 (2002-10-31)(Italy) [1]
  • 4 March 2003 (2003-03-04)(United Kingdom) [2]
Running time
103 minutes [2]
Countries
Languages
  • French [1]
  • English
Budget €11.4 million [3]
Box office US$8,7 million [4]

Summer Things (French : Embrassez qui vous voudrez; Italian : Baciate chi vi pare, also known as See How They Run) is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Michel Blanc, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Joseph Connolly. The ensemble cast includes Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Carole Bouquet, Michel Blanc, Karin Viard, Gaspard Ulliel and Mélanie Laurent. The film is a co-production between France, the United Kingdom and Italy.

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The film was released to critical acclaim and was a box-office hit in France, with over 1 million tickets sold. Karin Viard won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Véronique. Gaspard Ulliel won the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor for his performance as Loïc.

Plot

Elizabeth and Bertrand are typical representatives of Parisian society. Behind the facade of a perfect marriage is dissatisfaction and boredom. He is a successful real estate agent having fun with much younger women or men behind the back of his wife. She suffers under the crushing uneventful life of a housewife and looks forward to a family holiday with daughter Emily. Bertrand backs out at the last minute and sends in his place Julie, Elizabeth's best friend and his former lover. He is free for a new love affair in Paris. The neighbors, Véro and Jérôme have very different problems. Jérôme is unemployed and collects gas meters. He hides his feelings of failure from Véro and son Loic. Since Véro wants to keep up with the neighbors, both families end up in the same resort. Numerous mistakes, misunderstandings and surprises are inevitable.

Cast

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100%, based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. [5]

AlloCiné, a French cinema website, gave the film an average rating of 4.0/5, based on a survey of 23 French reviews. [6]

Box office

In France, Summer Things was released to 408 screens, where it debuted at number three at the box office, selling 480,951 tickets. [3] It sold a total of 1,336,579 tickets after 6 weeks in cinemas, ranking at number 24 of the highest-grossing films in France in 2002. [3] [7] The film grossed a total of $8,738,101 worldwide. [4]

Accolades

YearAward / Film FestivalCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
2003 César Awards Best Supporting Actor Denis Podalydès Nominated [8]
Best Supporting Actress Karin Viard Won [8] [9]
Best Writing Michel Blanc Nominated [8]
Most Promising Actor Gaspard Ulliel Nominated [8]
Lumières Awards Most Promising Actor Won [10]

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