Jun 12, 2012
SFFILM
A Burning Hot Summer (Un Été brûlant, France/Italy/Switzerland 2011), a searing relationship drama cowritten and directed by New Wave auteur Philippe Garrel, opens an exclusive San Francisco engagement July 20 at San Francisco Film Society Cinema (1746 Post Street).
The stormy relationship between a painter and an Italian film actress is seen through the eyes of another young couple in Philippe Garrel’s latest exploration of twisted emotional ties. An aspiring actor and self-professed revolutionary, Paul is working as an extra when he falls in love with another bit player in the film, the emotionally fragile Elisabeth. Around the same time, Paul meets the painter Frédéric (Louis Garrel) through a mutual friend, and Frédéric soon invites Paul and Elisabeth to Rome to stay with him and his Italian wife Angèle (Monica Bellucci). In the heat of a Roman summer, Paul and Elisabeth face the delicate start to their new love while Frédéric and Angèle’s begins to implode. Shooting in full color after several productions in black and white, Garrel allows the actors to give full range to the troubled passions that rule and rile their characters. The film was reportedly inspired both by the death of a friend of Garrel’s and by Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt. Written by Philippe Garrel, Marc Cholodenko, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Photographed by Willy Kurant. Music by John Cale. With Louis Garrel, Monica Bellucci, Jèrôme Robart, Cèline Sallette. In French with subtitles. 95 mins. Distributed by IFC Films.
Showtimes 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 pm
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office opens June 15 online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
To request an interview contact hhart@sffs.org.
To request screeners contact bproctor@sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
At SF Film Society Cinema, the stylish state-of-the art theater located in the New People building at 1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan) in Japantown, the San Francisco Film Society offers its acclaimed exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events on a daily year-round basis.
More upcoming San Francisco Film Society programs
Continuing on consecutive Saturdays through July 21: The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Through June 14: The Wages of Fear
Opening June 15: The Woman in the Fifth
June 21: Master Class: The Politics of the Cutting Room Floor
Opening June 22: Found Memories
June 22-July 7: KinoTek: Adriane Colburn: Ways, Points and Means
Opening June 29: Corpo Celeste
Opening July 6: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
Also Opening July 13: Ballplayer: Pelotero
Also opening July 13: Bonsái A story of awkward young love told with a supple synthesis of comedy, melancholy and romantic sensuality by writer/director Cristián Jiménez.
July 14 only: The Storytellers Show Back by popular demand! A reprise of the popular family shorts program from this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival.
July 19 only: Dark Horse – Filmmaker in person – Todd Solondz’s unsettling tale of a 35-year-old man-child who hopes to add a wife to his possessions.
July 20-August 11: KinoTek: Nate Boyce, video and sculpture
Opening July 27: Sacrifice Chen Kaige’s latest is a character-driven epic of retribution and regret written in the Yuan Dynasty.
August 24: Master Class: Les Blank on Documentary
September 15-October 20: KinoTek: Brent Green, sculpture and animation
December: KinoTek: Kota Ezawa, animation