Summer Games

Summer Games
  • Release date: 8 Feb 2012
  • Release year: 2011
  • Runtime: 101 minutes
  • Country: Switzerland, France
  • Keywords: child emancipation, belting, 12 year old, young boy, dysfunctional family, summer, domestic violence, abusive husband, tuscany, cruelty
Plot:
The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms with his father's traumatizing violent outbursts in games with other children. He tries to teach Marie, who is of his age and suffers from her own relationship with her father, to feel nothing. In fact, both of them are transformed by their experience of the joys and pains of first love. A film about the first steps towards a life of one's own.
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