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Summer (Le Rayon Vert) is the fifth of French director Eric Rohmer's Comedies et Proverbes movie cycle. Left out of everyone's Summer vacation plans, unhappy Parisian student Marie Riviere (Rohmer's star in all of the Comedies et Proverbes) accepts an invitation to stay at her friend's empty apartment in Biarritz. Swedish .. Read more

Starring	Marie Riviere, Lisa Heredia, Beatrice Romand, Vincent Gauthier
Director	Eric Rohmer
Genres	Comedy, World Cinema

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- With its improvised dialogue and less than sympathetic heroine, the movie lacks the precision and interest of Rohmer's best work, even if the theme remains the same.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
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  This is an extremely interesting film. If you enjoy the magic of sunsets, the intuitive sensitivity of a searching lover, a passion for interesting ... read more »
  
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  One of the most beautiful films ever made.
  
  Like all of Rohmer's work, this is deceptively simple and for the uninterested, there may not seem much going on.
  
  However, with Rohmer, it's ... read more »
  
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  YAAAAAAAWN what a waste of my time
  
  I LOVE retro French films. But this one was an utter disappointment. I feel like I wasted my evening like Delphine is wasting her life. Ok well if you are ... read more »
  
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  Le Rayon Vert
  
  This is a plot you struggle to pin down, no plot, but holds your interest all the way through and away from yacking on about an inner truth (which I don't ... read more »
  
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  - 17 Feb 2011 at 21:59
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  Masterly understatement
  
  This film starts slowly, so low-key that after the first ten minutes you might think it makes Monsiour Hulot's Holiday look like Starlight Express. But stay... read more »
  
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  - 07 Nov 2009 at 22:01
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  Rayon Vert
  
  The main problem in cross-cultural understanding of the film is to know the extent to which Paris and other cities empty in August, although a more anglo-saxon ... read more »
  
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  - 08 Aug 2009 at 13:37
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  Pretty boring
  
  This film is labeled a comedy, which it certainly isn't. I found it pretty boring. The acting is very good, but the content is too much on the same level ... read more »
  
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  - 02 May 2009 at 21:42
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  mid-range Rohmer
  
  A good twenty years since I last saw this film - and it was slightly less good than I remembered. I am a big fan of Rohmer, but this takes a long time to make ... read more »
  
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  - 12 Dec 2008 at 21:25
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  The Green Ray
  
  This film if fun, from beginning to end. The characters say what they want to say, almost in spite of the script. At times they seem to be unsure what the ... read more »
  
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  - 10 Aug 2008 at 09:54
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  Ray of light
  
  This film may well seem very slow at first - and it doesn't speed up - but it's worth choosing an evening when you feel patient, and seeing it through; ... read more »
  
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  - 22 Apr 2008 at 20:25
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  More like Death Ray
  
  I don't remember having seen an Eric Rohmer film before watching Green Ray. I may have, but on this evidence it would have been an eminently forgettable ... read more »
  
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  - 08 Mar 2007 at 19:44
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  This is an extremely ...
  
  This is an extremely interesting film. If you enjoy the magic of sunsets, the intuitive sensitivity of a searching lover, a passion for interesting ... read more »
  
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  Thoughtful and surprising..
  
  I loved this film. I think I am fast becoming a big Eric Rohmer fan, too.
  
  Very meditative film this. Very much a personal journey through a whole ... read more »
  
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  - 30 Sep 2004 at 14:52
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  French fluff
  
  Delphine has been let down by a friend and faces spending her summer holiday in Paris alone, so instead she takes little trips to Cherbourg, to the mountains, ... read more »
  
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  - 27 Aug 2004 at 01:54
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  Charming
  
  We really enjoyed this. The heroine got on our nerves quite a bit, but I guess that she is supposed to, so that is OK. It is easygoing, and nicely made.
  
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  Masterly understatement
  
  This film starts slowly, so low-key that after the first ten minutes you might think it makes Monsiour Hulot's Holiday look like Starlight Express. But stay... read more »
  
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- - sisyphus
  - 9 reviews
  - Cambridge
  - 07 Nov 2009 at 22:01
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  Rubbish
  
  Absolute rubbish and poor quality film.
  
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  - 21 May 2006 at 12:56
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  Loved the film
  
  I am a big fan of world cinema, though this is the first Eric Rohmer film I have seen.
  
  I loved it, and found it quite gripping, even though it ... read more »
  
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  - 21 Mar 2005 at 20:14
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  Ray of light
  
  This film may well seem very slow at first - and it doesn't speed up - but it's worth choosing an evening when you feel patient, and seeing it through; ... read more »
  
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  This film if fun, from beginning to end. The characters say what they want to say, almost in spite of the script. At times they seem to be unsure what the ... read more »
  
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  mid-range Rohmer
  
  A good twenty years since I last saw this film - and it was slightly less good than I remembered. I am a big fan of Rohmer, but this takes a long time to make ... read more »
  
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  - 12 Dec 2008 at 21:25

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Critics' reviews
- With its improvised dialogue and less than sympathetic heroine, the movie lacks the precision and interest of Rohmer's best work, even if the theme remains the same.
- 32857
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
- It's July, and Delphine (RiviÃre), a young Parisian secretary, is suddenly at a loss regarding her holiday; a friend... read more on Time Out
- 46162
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
- [T]he film oozes honesty and spontaneity; the world, quite bluntly, is masterpiece
- 217425
- - Time Out
  - 22 Sep 2011 at 05:24

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  Summer (Le Rayon Vert) is the fifth of French director Eric Rohmer's Comedies et Proverbes movie cycle. Left out of everyone's Summer vacation plans, unhappy Parisian student Marie Riviere (Rohmer's star in all of the Comedies et Proverbes) accepts an invitation to stay at her friend's empty ...