Synopsis
The Summer House (Les Estivants, 2018) is a French-Italian tragicomedy you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. She also stars as Anna, a screenwriter who brings her daughter to a grand old villa on the French Riviera to recover from a fresh break-up and finish her next film.
The estate feels sealed off from the world — a garden, a staff, relatives and friends all gathered for the season. Calm never comes. Anna wrestles with her script, picks fights with everyone close to her, absorbs reproaches and dishes out plenty of her own. Below stairs, the maids and cooks carry their own dramas, and the film watches this wealthy house from both levels at once. The cast includes Pierre Arditi, Valeria Golino, Riccardo Scamarcio and Vincent Perez.
This is intensely personal cinema, almost a confession: Bruni Tedeschi mines her own family and spares neither herself nor her privilege. It's for viewers who love talky French drama with no plot rails — mood, irony and awkward honesty instead of events. Stream The Summer House online on iFILM.
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