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Au Revoir l'Eté

Au Revoir l'Eté

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Summary

After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.

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Review

A star rating of 3 out of 5.

David Parkinson

The spirit of Eric Rohmer's A Summer's Tale permeates this teasing rites-of-passage film. It keeps shifting its narrative perspective between Fumi Nikaido, who has failed her university entrance exam and goes to spend the summer house-sitting on the coast with her aunt, and Taiga, a young refugee from the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, who is working at the "love hotel" managed by his uncle. Confused by the way grown-ups behave, Nikaido hopes that a fling with Taiga will help her refocus on her studies. But he has issues of his own, as he demonstrates during a hilariously non-PC speech at an anti-nuclear rally and when he rails at a hotel guest trying to smuggle in an underage paramour. In his fourth feature, writer/director Koji Fukada shows flashes of Rohmeresque wit. But, for all his allusions to art and politics, he is currently a better image-maker (in conjunction with cinematographer Kenichi Negishi) than a storyteller.

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7.1/10

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Cast

rolenameSakukoFumi NikaidoMikieMayu TsurutaTakashiTaiga UkichiKanji FurutachiNishidaOhtake TadashiChikaEna Koshino

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Crew

rolenameDirectorKoji Fukada

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Theatrical distributor

Day for Night

Released on

2015-04-24

Languages

Japanese

Formats

Colour

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