An attempt at an intimate personal drama that just doesn't come off.
Five Days One Summer
An obsession, a love, a memory.
1982 · 1h 48m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Fred Zinnemann
Overview
A 1930s Scottish doctor goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece he passes off as his wife.
Director and cast
- Fred Zinnemann Director
- Sean Connery as Douglas Meredith
- Betsy Brantley as Kate
- Lambert Wilson as Johann Biari
- Jennifer Hilary as Sarah Meredith
- Isabel Dean as Kate's Mother
- Gérard Buhr as Brendel
- Anna Massey as Jennifer Pierce
- Sheila Reid as Gillian Pierce
- Georges Claisse as Dieter
- Kathy Marothy as Dieter's Wife
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
This isn't a movie anyone would mind, but it isn't one anyone would feel terribly touched by, either.
A film which creates drama more out of gesture and nuance than dialogue, and employs a lush setting which overwhelms instead of pointing up the characters' emotions.
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