This here is a revelation:

“Summer Hours is a film highly attuned to the subtle, often contradictory currents tugging at the characters. Rather than spurring them into a collision just to see the catastrophic consequences, Assayas permits the family members to wrestle with challenges as humans would in real life, their agony evolving and their frustration palpable. Sometimes the characters convert others to their way of thinking, sometimes they suffer in silence, and sometimes they are diverted by other tasks.”

I rank this film as one of the very best films of the year so far, along with OF TIME AND THE CITY, UP, TOKYO SONATA, EVERLASTING MOMENTS, SERAPHINE and perhaps even GOODBYE SOLO and STAR TREK.

Your review is an inspiration to write my own.