Berlin Review: Denis Cote’s ‘That Kind of Summer’
deadline.comAn isolated house in the country, a small tribe of peculiar characters mostly keeping a wary distance from each other: That Kind of Summer (Un Ete Comme Ca) is a film set up perfectly for the pandemic era.
The bonus zinger is that the house is a live-in retreat for supposedly, or maybe just possibly, recovering sex addicts. Nobody leaves, and everyone talks dirty.
Denis Cote, the prolific Quebecois provocateur, must have been hugging himself when he thought of that one.Cote’s previous feature, made during Canada’s strictest lockdown, was wittily titled Social Hygiene.
It was filmed on a hillside, where a succession of different women hurled abuse at a man who had offended all of them; he looked and sounded as if he had just wandered on set from a Dostoevsky novel.
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