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'Summer Hours'

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Traumatic events transpire with exquisite delicacy in "Summer Hours," the latest film from Olivier Assayas ("Clean," "Demonlover").

The French writer-director observantly explores the nature of life and death, identity and family, and the value of material objects - both monetarily and sentimentally - with his story of three siblings coping with the loss of the family matriarch.

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