FOUR SEASONS: SUMMER

By: Kenji

Pauline at the Beach

Summertime and the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high

France seems ideal for a summer getaway from winter blues (i first posted this in winter cold), Rohmer the summer master. And now here the sun is shining, all round is lush green and blossoms and birdsong, and the warmth of summer is at last announcing its most welcome arrival with a deft and courteous wave of its gorgeous cape

Abraham Valley isn’t set only in summer, but when it is, how beautiful! The roses, the oranges, the Douro valley..

suggestions welcome

Blissfully Yours
_~

That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
(John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale)

A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
To drink there.
(D.H.Lawrence: Snake)

_~

Pierrot le Fou

• 01
  My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
  Éric Rohmer
• 02
  Claire's Knee
  Éric Rohmer
• 03
  The Green Ray
  Éric Rohmer
• 04
  Pauline at the Beach
  Éric Rohmer
• 05
  A Summer's Tale
  Éric Rohmer
• 06
  The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
  Éric Rohmer
• 07
  Smiles of a Summer Night
  Ingmar Bergman
• 08
  Summer with Monika
  Ingmar Bergman
• 09
  Early Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 10
  The End of Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 11
  Céline and Julie Go Boating
  Jacques Rivette
• 12
  La belle noiseuse
  Jacques Rivette
• 13
  Pierrot le fou
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 14
  Contempt
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 15
  Ornamental Hairpin
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 16
  Summertime
  David Lean
• 17
  A Day in the Country
  Jean Renoir
• 18
  The River
  Jean Renoir
• 19
  The Vertical Ray of the Sun
  Tran Anh Hung
• 20
  Blissfully Yours
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 21
  Crazed Fruit
  Kô Nakahira
• 22
  M. Hulot's Holiday
  Jacques Tati
• 23
  In the City of Sylvia
  José Luis Guerín
• 24
  Days and Nights in the Forest
  Satyajit Ray
• 25
  A Sunday in the Country
  Bertrand Tavernier
• 26
  People on Sunday
  Curt Siodmak
• 27
  A Summer at Grandpa's
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 28
  Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano
  Nikita Mikhalkov
• 29
  Worldly Desires
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 30
  A Room with a View
  James Ivory
• 31
  La Pointe Courte
  Agnès Varda
• 32
  Happiness
  Agnès Varda
• 33
  Burnt by the Sun
  Nikita Mikhalkov
• 34
  Abraham's Valley
  Manoel de Oliveira
• 35
  My Father's Glory
  Yves Robert
• 36
  My Mother's Castle
  Yves Robert
• 37
  Murmur of the Heart
  Louis Malle
• 38
  May Fools
  Louis Malle
• 39
  Still Walking
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 40
  The Power of Kangwon Province
  Hong Sang-soo
• 41
  Our Beloved Month of August
  Miguel Gomes
• 42
  Capricious Summer
  Jiří Menzel