Le bel été 1914 (1996)

Le bel été 1914 (1996)
1h 57min | Drama | 21 August 1996 (France)
Storyline
A couple take their son for the holidays to an uncle, so short of money that he rents part of his big isolated house to a businessman whose wife and daughters are there on holiday too. An affair develops among the adults, while the children start their own explorations. Deaths, disappearances and financial ruin follow as the world drifts into war.
User review:
"LE BEL ETE 14″:what an oxymoron! That summer was anything but beautiful,and the characters of the movie do not know that all their hopes and plans will sink like Titanic -the picture of the ship comes back several times-.Claude Rich's last line is scary :"I hope they 'll have the war!"
His world had already gone :an old aristocrat,short of the readies,who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist played by Philippe Torreton,de la comédie française,and by the doctor who finally grabs the castle which will be turned into a hospital.When the movie begins,it's already the end of the line for the old squire:he's forced to rent out a part of his desirable mansion to the industrialist's family.