#summer hours

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Summer Hours (2008)-Timestamp Roulette

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Wausau City Hall is shifting to summer hours through Sept. 4, with extended hours on Tuesdays and shorter hours on Fridays for participating departments.

Wausau City Hall shifts to summer hours

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Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 2008)

Jérémie Renier, Juliette Binoche, and Charles Berling in Summer Hours 

Cast: Charles Berling, Juliette Bioche, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond, Valérie Bonneton, Isabelle Sadoyan, Kyle Eastwood, Alice de Lencquesaing, Emile Berling, Jean-Baptiste Malartre. Screenplay: Olivier Assayas. Cinematography: Eric Gautier. Art direction: Fanny Stauff.  Film editing: Luc Barnier.

Summer Hours sounds like the title of a film by Yasujiro Ozu, but the resemblance doesn’t stop there. It has the melancholy tinged with humor of that master’s films, and like his Tokyo Story (1953), it begins with a family gathering and the subsequent death of the matriarch. But it takes place in another country half a century later, and milieu is almost everything. Now we are in France, and the characters it centers on, the siblings Frédéric (Charles Berling), Adrienne (Juliette Binoche), and Jérémie (Jérémie Renier), are caught up in the global economy, with all that implies about letting go of the past, pulling up roots. The Marly siblings, their spouses and children, and their mother, Hélène Berthier (who took her maiden name back after the death of her husband), are apparently content with their lives, but happy families are really not all alike. Olivier Assayas’s story centers on a legacy, the stuff of 19th-century novels and murder mysteries as recent as Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019). But Assayas never lets his film sink into melodrama or the flamboyant acting-out of squabbling heirs. It’s about mature people facing the inevitable. Hélène (Edith Scob) has inherited the house owned by her uncle, a famous artist, which is filled with valuable works of art, though it is rather run down and very much lived in. The decorative panels by Redon are marred by damp, a broken plaster statuette by Degas is shoved into a cabinet – itself a work of art – in a plastic shopping bag, the art nouveau desk is cluttered with papers, and a couple of Corots hang casually in a hallway. When the family gathers there to celebrate Hélène’s 75th birthday, she pulls the oldest, Frédéric, aside to give him some instructions about what to do with things when she’s gone. This invariably awkward discussion is handled by Assayas and the actors with truth and finesse. Soon, sure enough, Hélèneis dead, and the rest of the film is about the family coming to terms with the consequences of a legacy all of them treasure but none of them really has room for in their lives. It might be classified as a character study rather than a drama, but Assayas and company build such intimacy with the characters that we can feel the drama as intensely as if it dealt with matters of great moment and urgency.

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Juliette Binoche in Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 2008)

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L'Heure d'été | Summer Hours (2008) dir. Olivier Assayas cine. Éric Gautier

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Updated Library Hours for the Remainder of Summer Break 2021

Now that all the Summer Session courses have concluded, the Library's remote help hours have changed. We are available M-Th from 8am to 4pm (no evening hours), and Friday 8am-12pm.

As always, our online resources, such as databases, video streaming, catalog search, and eBooks are available to our users 24/7! You just need your library card number to access them.

Enjoy the end of your summer break. We are looking forward to a great Fall 2021 with lots of good things to bring you! Keep an eye on our social media for updates!

Stay safe everyone!!!

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Summer Hours (2008) dir. Olivier Assayas