One Deadly Summer
1983 · 130 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 5,670 VOTES · DIR. Jean Becker
Overview
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
Dialogue Timeline — 1,189 lines
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00:02:04 I first saw her in April...
00:06:12 but we get on well. We don't need to talk much.
00:10:49 The kids followed it around.
00:18:32 He asked me what I'd done to you.
00:22:51 I've a Delahaye. Know what that is?
00:27:09 You're right, wow!
00:33:36 I mustn't mention the barrel organ.
00:40:15 I'm sorry, I'm hard of hearing.
00:45:10 Faint? How do you mean?
00:49:35 What else?
00:56:43 You'd gone to the wake. So there!
01:01:17 She was off to see her old teacher, Mlle Dieu on the bus.
01:05:43 Ring when you've decided.
01:10:21 'Let me be your flame".
01:15:36 I'm a foreigner.
01:20:28 Come down, that's enough now.
01:27:45 I'll get you another.
01:33:22 I had a lump in my throat, like I had as a boy when I wanted to howl.
01:38:39 Come in quick. You mustn't be seen.
01:43:03 I prefer my mother's.
01:47:57 You didn't deliver the piano to the Montecciari?
01:53:02 Are you ill?
01:59:09 What was I doing just now?
02:05:09 And, following some terrible emotional shocks...