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Summary Siblings Violeta and Eva live in California with their mother, but every summer they travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to spend time with their loving but unpredictable father, Vicente (René “Residente” Pérez Joglar). Over the course of four formative summers that span adolescence to early adulthood, Violeta and Eva learn to appreciate t...

Directed By: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio

Written By: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2024
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 35 m

In the Summers

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
83
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Summary Siblings Violeta and Eva live in California with their mother, but every summer they travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to spend time with their loving but unpredictable father, Vicente (René “Residente” Pérez Joglar). Over the course of four formative summers that span adolescence to early adulthood, Violeta and Eva learn to appreciate t...

Directed By: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio

Written By: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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100
Sep 20, 2024
It is a testament to this deeply moving film that Lacorazza has laid bare her own complicated feelings about her father while acknowledging that, as shown in a silently shattering final scene, sometimes words fail.
By Tim Grierson FULL REVIEW
90
Jan 26, 2024
In the Summers is the type of personal, confidently executed first outing that should hopefully put the filmmaker on an auspicious track to produce other keenly humanist work.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
88
Sep 20, 2024
In Lacorazza’s hands, the film becomes less about individual memories of a fraught childhood than their gradual accumulation; it’s not slice-of-life but rather summation-of-self, for all three protagonists.
By Isaac Feldberg FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 19, 2024
Lacorazza’s deftness with actors, feel for the setting and aesthetic decisions — shooting in the snapshot-like 1.66-to-1 aspect ratio, or leaving the characters’ Spanish without subtitles — help the drama ring true.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 27, 2024
A lot happens, some of it life-changing, some of it heartrending, parts of it (in story terms) a bit rushed or on-the-nose. The actors, unerringly well-cast, more or less take care of those last parts.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 8, 2024
One of the film’s great strengths resides in Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio’s confidence in her details to speak for themselves, without the need of plot gimmickry.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 2, 2024
Thanks to phenomenal camera work and partnership with cinematographer Alejandro Mejía, In the Summers is elevated by an impressive experience both emotionally and visually.
By Patrice Witherspoon FULL REVIEW

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7.8
75% Positive
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Production Company Lexicon (II), Bluestone Entertainment, Exile Content Studio, Yellow Nest Films, Assembly Line Entertainment, 1868 Studios, Arci Films, Luz Films
Release Date Sep 20, 2024
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Website https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/in-the-summers/
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Deauville Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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