Enough romantic comedies in the Netherlands. One has not yet left the cinema or there is already a new one. As if they are produced on an assembly line. And that’s how ‘Summer in France’ feels.
Two befriended families decide to spend the summer in a cottage in France. This is of course accompanied by the necessary travel problems. The couples’ bad marriages don’t help with this. Everything becomes even more difficult when Marie (Fockeline Ouwerkerk) from one family and Walt (Tjebbo Gerritsma) from the other fall in love with each other.
They want to start a relationship. Don’t leave their partners (Jan Kooijman and Jasmine Sendar) alone. Fortunately, the two seem to be having a good time together. At least most of the time. At pétanque they want to be on the same team, but a trip with the canoe ends in shouting. In such ways, the film tries to create drama and conflict. It feels forced. Little attention is paid to the effect this partner exchange has on the children.
Actors must have had a good time
With a movie like this you know that everything will end well. Also in Summer in France everyone finds love, even the landlady and the youngest daughter, even if it is that of a dog. Fortunately, all other expectations are also fulfilled. Light-hearted, sometimes a successful joke and of course summer in France. In any case, the actors will have had a good time, viewers know a trick like this by now.
Where to see?
Movie Summer in France Direction Mark de Cloe Of Fockeline Ouwerkerk, Tjebbo Gerritsma, Jan Kooijman To see DNK, Assen; The Bios, Drachten; Kinepolis, Emmen; Kinepolis and Pathé, Groningen; The Bios, Heerenveen; Vue, Hoogeveen; Vue, Hoogezand; Astra, Klazienaveen; Pathé, Leeuwarden; Luxor, Meppel; Cinema Sneek; Smoky, City Canal; Luxor, Steenwijk
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