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...
00:06:09 He's as daft as a brush...
00:10:21 I don't need your help I can chat her up as easily as you.
00:18:08 She'd even hate a Scotsman.
00:22:29 You're joking.
00:26:10 But I was by far the prettiest.
00:32:22 They'll pay dearly, and their families.
00:39:16 She's going to bathe right here!
00:44:24 Tell him it's not true, you hussy!
00:48:33 End of chapter. A little perseverance and I'll sign my name Montecciari.
00:55:44 Only my sister dislikes her. She thinks her insincere and giddy.
00:59:57 Worse than that.
01:04:06 There we are Saturday the nineteenth Leballech.
01:08:30 Enough to buy you a present.
01:13:55 Or he's not shouting at me because I'm twenty.
01:17:40 And he'd still be walking.
01:23:07 A medal and a bike Pin-Pon will flog for fifty francs.
01:30:09 And very nice you looked.
01:35:53 We aren't going to steal your plate. You'll choke one of these days.
01:40:00 I hoped, once I'd married, they'd stop.
01:45:06 For the first time that summer I was good to leave home.
01:49:11 Don't believe me?
01:54:39 Before they attacked your mother.
02:00:02 Idiot!