One Day in Summer ( Un jour d'été ) ( A Summer Day )

One Day in Summer (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Un jour d'été
Alternate Title: A Summer Day
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min + 130 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Franck Guérin

Written By:
Agnès Feuvre
Franck Guérin

Actors:
Baptiste Bertin ..... Sébastien
Catherine Mouchet ..... La mère de Mickaël
Jean-François Stévenin ..... Maurice
Théo Frilet ..... Mickaël
Elise Caron ..... Louise
Philippe Fretun ..... Le père de Sébastien
Yann Peira ..... L'enquêteur
Thierry Godard ..... L'entraineur
Bernard Blancan ..... L'adjoint au maire
Colette Bonnet ..... Manuella
Léa Didier ..... La vendeuse Tabac-Presse (as Anne-Lise Haubert)
Andréa Fontana ..... Francis
Romain Galibert ..... Noémie
Alexandra Goujon ..... Voix journal télévisé
Jean-Claude Guérin
Ann'Lise Haubert
Brice Hillairet
Denis Jacquey
Jacques Lafoly
Anne Lopez
Aly Magdy Maghrabi
Murielle Paradon
Claire Parpaillon
Julien Pourel
Xavier Robin

Synopsis:

As summer fades from a small French town, young adolescent Sebastien (Baptiste Bertin) struggles with his own sexual identity and with internalized, often contradictory erotic feelings, in director Franck Guerin's understated coming-of-ager A Summer Day. Sebastien spends the majority of his time assisting his single father (Philippe Fretun) in the latter's garage, but warms even more to palling around with male friend Mickael (Theo Frilet - a boy he quietly finds sensual and erotic. When a bizarre accident involving a soccer goal post kills Mikael, the event not only plunges the town into a state of perpetual horror, but leaves Sebastien doubly conflicted and confused about his feelings for the boy. He finds a partial salvation in a friendship with Mickael's mother (Catherine Mouchet); to the same degree that Sebastien seeks her out, filially, as a maternal surrogate, she looks to him as a much-needed substitute for the son she lost. Meanwhile, Sebastien's burgeoning awareness of his own homosexuality grows more concrete, but an open admission and embrace of this identity seem utterly impossible given the gross hypocrisies and backward sexual repression that plague the community. Guerin and Agnes Feuvre co-authored the script.

Set in a provincial town in western France. Sebastien and Mickael are best friends, a friendship in which gay undertones are present and which may develop into something closer in the future. They hang out together during the summer, until Mikael is shockingly killed in freak accident whilst playing football. Both Sebastien and Mickael's mother are grief-stricken and confused, and she begins to see Sebastien as a substitute son, whilst he is only to pleased to have a mother-figure.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 16 November, 2009.

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