Frédéric and Angèle are a married couple, he a painter, she an actress of some renown who gave up her career to be with him. She is a woman who most men desire. Struggling actors Paul and Élisabeth, ...

Sarkozy-era socioeconomic tensions form the backdrop for romantic entanglement and disintegration in A Burning Hot Summer, Philippe Garrel’s laconic portrait of two couples striving to stay together.

The French director Philippe Garrel’s melancholy, death-haunted romance burrows beneath drama (which is thin), psychology (which is sketchy), and even images (which are surprisingly uninflected) to ...

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