A Burning Hot Summer
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  • Summary: On a burning summer’s night, a sports car crashes headlong into a tree. The previous year, Paul meets and befriends the painter Frédéric through a mutual friend. Frédéric is deeply in love with the actress Angèle. Paul watches that love turn into a dangerous obsession that will threaten histen his friend's sanity and future. (IFC Film)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    Jun 28, 2012
    80
    In A Burning Hot Summer (a pulpy title that sounds better in the original, "Un Été Brûlant), two men fall into friendship, and while little happens, everything is at stake.
  2. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Eric Hynes
    Jun 26, 2012
    80
    There are subtler, more allusive films about stormy conflicts of the heart, but A Burning Hot Summer wisely knows when and how to surgically slice directly to the bone. It's a bad romance of the highest order.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Jul 11, 2012
    50
    A Burning Hot Summer failed to persuade me of any reason for its existence.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Farran Smith Nehme
    Jun 29, 2012
    38
    It's apt that the Rome weather in this stodgy film, contrary to the title, seems quite temperate.

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