In the Summers

Name: In the Summers
Genre: Drama
Released: September 20, 2024
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 83
Cast: Allison Salinas, Dreya Castillo, Emma Ramos, Kimaya Thais, Leslie Grace

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Music Box Films | Release Date: September 20, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Allison Salinas, Dreya Castillo, Emma Ramos, Kimaya Thais, Leslie Grace, Lio Mehiel, Luciana Elisa Quinonez, Residente, Sasha Calle, Sharlene Cruz

Summary: Siblings Violeta and Eva live in California with their mother, but every summer they travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to spend time with their loving but unpredictable father, Vicente (René “Residente” Pérez Joglar). Over the course of four formative summers that span adolescence to early adulthood, Violeta and Eva learn to appreciateSiblings Violeta and Eva live in California with their mother, but every summer they travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to spend time with their loving but unpredictable father, Vicente (René “Residente” Pérez Joglar). Over the course of four formative summers that span adolescence to early adulthood, Violeta and Eva learn to appreciate their father as a person, his flaws and limitations inseparable from his passion and tenderness. Lovers come and go, the backyard goes to seed, but the idea of home remains knotty and elusive. … Expand

Director: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Tim Grierson

Sep 20, 2024

It is a testament to this deeply moving film that Lacorazza has laid bare her own complicated feelings about her father while acknowledging that, as shown in a silently shattering final scene, sometimes words fail. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Jan 26, 2024

In the Summers is the type of personal, confidently executed first outing that should hopefully put the filmmaker on an auspicious track to produce other keenly humanist work. Read full review

Justin Chang

Feb 12, 2024

Coming-of-age dramas may be a dime a dozen at Sundance, but one this tender and truthful can make an entire subgenre feel shimmeringly new. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Jan 26, 2024

The feature is a visual poem, an enveloping four-stanza ode to experiences shared by a man and his daughters. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Sep 19, 2024

Lacorazza’s deftness with actors, feel for the setting and aesthetic decisions — shooting in the snapshot-like 1.66-to-1 aspect ratio, or leaving the characters’ Spanish without subtitles — help the drama ring true. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Sep 27, 2024

A lot happens, some of it life-changing, some of it heartrending, parts of it (in story terms) a bit rushed or on-the-nose. The actors, unerringly well-cast, more or less take care of those last parts. Read full review

Screen Rant Patrice Witherspoon

Feb 2, 2024

Thanks to phenomenal camera work and partnership with cinematographer Alejandro Mejía, In the Summers is elevated by an impressive experience both emotionally and visually. Read full review

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