THAT SUMMER (on CINE-FILE Chicago)

This week over at CINE-FILE Chicago, I wrote about Göran Hugo Olsson’s THAT SUMMER. Once more to that funky, ramshackle Gothic house by the sea, and one more dance with Little Edie and Big Edie, ex-toasts of high society, scions of the fading American aristocracy. As Peter Beard puts it, "They lived in a dream world, and it was okay. They had great inner poetry, bringing up new ideas, talking to their cats...I never thought of the Beales as sad or unfortunate, or anything except very excellent at feeling what it was like to hold onto the past. They just had nothing but echoes of songs and dreams of a family history long gone." It plays this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center. To read my review, please go to CINE-FILE Chicago and scroll down to "Also Recommended."