Solid 90s emocore from Assayas. Doesn’t succeed in achieving the depth of something like “Summer Hours”, but “Late August, Early September” is a reminder of that 90s ideal of personal filmmaking all across the globe at the time, and Assayas made a really good version of that kind of movie with this. Plus, the fact that Virginie Ledoyen starred in this and Edward Yang’s “Mahjong” within a year of each other is kind of nuts to think about.
Solid 90s emocore from Assayas. Doesn’t succeed in achieving the depth of something like “Summer Hours”, but “Late August, Early September” is a reminder of that 90s ideal of personal filmmaking all across the globe at the time, and Assayas made a really good version of that kind of movie with this. Plus, the fact that Virginie Ledoyen starred in this and Edward Yang’s “Mahjong” within a year of each other is kind of nuts to think about.
