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- 2014
- R
- Cohen Media Group
- 1 h 39 m
- 2014
- R
- Cohen Media Group
- 1 h 39 m
Summary As May’s wedding approaches, she finds herself confronting her family’s turbulent past. [Cohen Media Group]
Directed By: Cherien Dabis
Written By: Cherien Dabis
- 2014
- R
- Cohen Media Group
- 1 h 39 m
- 2014
- R
- Cohen Media Group
- 1 h 39 m
May in the Summer
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Summary As May’s wedding approaches, she finds herself confronting her family’s turbulent past. [Cohen Media Group]
Directed By: Cherien Dabis
Written By: Cherien Dabis
Where to Watch
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Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
56
50% Positive
6 Reviews
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50% Mixed
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0% Negative
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As much as May in the Summer is a comedy — May and her mischievous sisters may remind you of The Three Stooges — it is also an intimate and demystifying look at life in Amman, where the movie was actually filmed.
As is, it's a pleasant but unremarkable retelling of a story as old as the Dead Sea itself.
The setting and various religious rifts are unfamiliar, if the domestic/romantic melodrama isn’t.
The film really pops to life only when it gets a little messy, and it's never messier than when it loses itself in family dynamics.
The hand-wringing and revelations are familiar from many wedding movies, but May in the Summer gains added potency from its cross-cultural tensions and the drama the characters face in reconciling tradition with modern life.
This warmly conceived but largely formulaic picture is by turns sensitive and shrill, culturally perceptive and overly broad in its dysfunctional-family melodramatics.
May In The Summer just never distinguishes itself in any way that isn’t superficial.
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Production Company
Displaced Pictures,
Anonymous Content,
Durga Entertainment,
Whitewater Films
Release Date Aug 22, 2014
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Dubai International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
