TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

med_1978 I have to say the first time I saw this movie I was left stunned.This is superbly photographed, well acted and very unpredictable road movie thriller.This is one movie where I honestly could not predict what was going to happen next. An excellent cast headed by French actor Jean Hugues Anglade (Betty Blue, Killing Zoe) the very luminous Connie Nielsen (Gladiator, The Ice Harvest) & sexy Mia Kirshner (The Black Dahlia, Mad City)play two sisters in a very unusual road movie.The supporting cast is excellent too with the likes of Frank Langella, Anne Archer, Robert Culp & Keith David.The storyline throws up one surprise after another as the three go on the road after the sister's father passes, quite quickly though things take a very dark turn and Gerard Huxley (Jean Hugues Anglade) begins to wonder if he has made a grave mistake.The music in the film is good and the locations are beautifully photographed.I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and really cannot understand the low score. I give it 7/10

fornarina282 This one's good to watch on a dark afternoon, with the phone turned off and no place to go for hours. In the same way you'd mentally prepare to see a matinée double-feature of THE DEER HUNTER with APOCALYPSE NOW, prepare to be disturbed at what you may see and feel. Bizarre mostly applies here, with Fear and Loathing. If you don't know, bi-zarre adj. Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd. Frank Langella and Robert Culp (like you've NEVER seen him, but suspected all along that he had it in him) share screen time with Jean-Hughes Anglade, Keith David, Anne Archer, Mia Kirshner, and Connie Nielsen on a dark summer day fraught with bizarro turns and nauseating undercurrents (out of 10, it gets an 11). Watch this film with a strong stomach. (Interested in plot summary? Please read the other reviews.)

peaton_163 Since my first kid I am the video store junkie from hell and I look for films I have never seen all the time. The film I found called "Dark Summer" I have no idea why this movie was not in the theaters. (Hollywood BS I'll bet, good films never get seen-GO INDIES!!!!) I saw from the cover Connie Nielsen and Mia Kirschner (Exotica-another great film) so I took a chance. The lead character played by this Jean Hughes Anglade was absolutely yummy for a French guy and the film was filled with all these cool actors like Keith David, Frank Langella and Anne Archer playing the most amazing character i have ever seen and probably the best of career. I won't give away any of the plot but this film has it all, great acting, gorgeous photography, murder, mayhem, perverts, drug addicts/alcoholics and a really kick ass cast. Support independent films and if you want to see a great movie, "Dark Summer" is one of the great ones that no one knows about out there!

Memlets Gerard, a French cellist, is driving across America when he sees cops investigating what looks like a car accident or a crime scene by the side of the road. He's so distracted that he runs off the highway and crashes into a field.At the hospital, he meets Megan, a beautiful nurse. She's very distracting, too, and invites him to dinner at her house.This guy never learns.Megan lives with her equally beautiful younger sister, Dominique, who's infantile and seductive, and their dying father. Dad dies a few hours later and is buried apparently the next day.Nothing like a funeral to stir the libido. That night, Gerard and Megan make love and a nude Gerard plays his cello in the dark.The next morning, the mind-gaming sisters play a trick on Gerard, who gets a bloody nose in the process, but when they invite themselves on his road trip, he doesn't flee in terror, as any sensible person would.About halfway through the movie, we're trying to decide what's more ridiculous: the over-the-top emoting over deep, dark family secrets; Dominique's personality; the cello-and-fiddle jam session at a country-western bar; Gerard's big, dumb puppy-dog eyes; or the fact that we're still watching.This movie is like a car wreck or a murder scene. It's dreadful, but you simply can't take your eyes off it.