How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:15
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: At 40, Miriam exudes a serene beauty and a self-confidence as vast as the ocean next to her summer home. There are no taboos in the life she shares with her companion, André, and their 15-year-old... [More]
Starring: Martina Gedeck, Robert Seelinger, Peter Davor, Svea Lohde
Director: Stefan Krohmer
More in the nature of audience eavesdropping on some scandalous neighbors than gripping or meaningful storytelling, the film is wracked with superficial, amoral characters and petty, hand wringing sordid emotional preoccupations and obsessions.
What better way to spend 97 minutes in November than trying to sort out romantic complications in shorts and sailboats?
If Krohmer and Knocke meticulously crafted the world Miriam inhabits, it is Gedeck's presence that makes it such a tangible mess -- which is meant as high praise indeed.
Straight ahead in form but unnerving and unexpected in content.
Top CriticAll I know is, I didn't buy it. It didn't scan. And I'm sorry it didn't, because Summer '04 offers much to admire and a few things to fear.
Although intelligent and insightful, Summer '04 is also more than just a little bit dull.
Top CriticA well-crafted and deceptively leisurely film, with a heart of ice.
Alternating between polite probing and adolescent fidgeting once lust takes over, [actor Gedeck's] turn props up this intellectual potboiler even when it stumbles and falls.
[A] warmly stirring romantic maelstrom of five multigenerational libidos let loose at a lakeside vacation site.
The film unfolds with cold, Chabrolian detachment and quietly builds to a coolly satisfying denouement that leaves everyone involved -- including the audience -- second-guessing everything that's come before.
Summer ’04 is so plainly the product of meticulous forethought that the shooting script might have been etched on marble slabs.
Top CriticThe resulting cinematic chimera isn't remarkably pretty, but it's pretty remarkable.
As twisted and steamy a psychological thriller as you could hope to find, provided you're not put off by the pedophilia coursing through this intriguing romantic roundelay.
This blunt and methodical chamber-piece thriller, filled with deceptively lazy afternoons, has the seductive and flinty heart of a Ruth Rendell novel.
The actors rise to the challenge of Nocke's tricky, high-flown script, and Krohmer meets them there.
Summer '04 couldn't have come soon enough.
click for full review
Summer '04 more than confirms the promise of young Teuton helmer Stefan Krohmer.
Top CriticA rare thing: a successfully asymmetrical drama.
August 02, 2007:
Bourne Is Certified Fresh; Hot Rod Hits the Skids; Bratz is Grade-Z; El Cantante Hits A Flat Note
This week at the movies, we got amnesiac spies (The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon and Julia Stiles), loser daredevils (Hot Rod, with Andy Samberg and Isla Fisher), salsa... More...
July 27, 2007:
More in the nature of audience eavesdropping on some scandalous neighbors than gripping or meaningful storytelling, the film is wracked with superficial, amoral characters and petty, hand wringing sordid emotional preoccupations and obsessions. 
More...
Subscribe to RT's YouTube channel and don't miss a second of our cracking video content.
Follow Rotten Tomatoes and join us as we tweet about the week's releases.
IGN.com |
GameSpy |
Comrade |
Arena |
FilePlanet |
GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox |
Planets |
Vaults |
VE3D |
CheatsCodesGuides |
GameStats |
GamerMetrics
AskMen.com |
Rotten Tomatoes |
Direct2Drive |
Green Pixels
IGN RSS Feeds
Comment
