Assayas introduces Summer with Monika

To whet your appetite, and for those of you who can't make it, here's something Assayas has said before about Monika:

'The film radiates with the happiness and simple joy in telling this story. It's something completely exceptional, almost unique in the history of cinema.'

Word. Assayas' talk is of course on the occasion of the seven films now being distributed in France. (Otherwise, it wasn't long ago since the Lyonnais had their faire share of Bergman.)

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