Reviews on movie Summer Is Over (5)

As a child, I loved this movie as much as any kid who never gets off his bike. It's funny that the comments say something like, "It's a pity there's no special effects; it'll scare away the young people!" You can think 'Operation 'Y' and 'Caucasian prisoner' people like for some unprecedented and unsurpassed special effects )
In general, a funny story about how the violinist Zhek got into Kurepka.

The guys played their roles brilliantly! I’m not talking about adult actors.

Directing and editing - on the hard five (well, go ten - on this site). Nothing more! No procrastination, no tongue-in-cheek. Each frame is necessary, strictly measured and serves to develop the plot.

The script is somewhat similar to a theatrical play, such as "The Servants of Two Masters" or "Mad Day" by Beaumarchet. But this does not interfere with the film, giving it lightness and speed. Thank God, there was no boring “love line”, which is obsessed with modern screenwriters.
The live footage is high. An example of how you can shoot a race without a shaking camera and special effects... be remembered by night. . .

In short, it's a beautiful 60s job. This is a book for future directors.

On the one hand, there are no obvious shoals in this film: all the storylines are somehow connected, all the details are involved, there are no eye-catching camera blunders either. The quality of the film is normal. Only one thing is missing - the creators of the film failed to make the system of images alive, so that the situation was interesting to follow, and the characters - to sympathize.
The problem with this film is that nothing grows out of a potentially interesting plot, everything is too flat, declarative and without nuances. For example, the film touches on the theme of Valera’s disappointment in the expedition – but it is not disclosed, just says that he will accompany the cargo, and then he is already walking along Kurepka. Then comes the topic of aunts who are not so boring - but it does not show how Zheka changed his attitude to what is happening, how he got high with them, we only hear from him about the walk. It is not that the film does not show anything at all, but what is shown is somehow too superficial. Instead of the actual movie, where there are some events on the screen, the viewer is offered just a story about them, dry as the release of evening news. This is compounded by the occasional voice-over that would have added irony to a lively film. But everything is so straightforward and stereotyped that there is simply no room for any irony. Moreover, this pattern is also implausible: well, it is impossible so easily to stop being floppy and learn everything, and even on a log it is famous to drive. To solve this topic, it was necessary to come up with a convincing motivation for Zheka, but this in the film, like many other things that could make it richer and more interesting, is absent. It is not surprising that good actresses in the role of aunts there is simply nothing to play: aunts have no characters, they are just abstract-positive and businesslike.

Overall, the film was too dull for comedy and too shallow for drama. Even the race leaves you puzzled: how can you manage to shoot such a dynamic scene as a race so boring? It’s no surprise that this movie got lost in the shadows 'Welcome, or No-Terms Admission ', filmed the same year. If a work of art has a bright, vivid beginning, you forgive even the existing shortcomings. And when a film has no merit, even the absence of obvious flaws cannot save it. The only thing better in this film than ' after all' is the image of Valery, who seems to be a champion and macho, but hides behind a friend-rohli.
3 out of 10

A children's film in the production of a wonderful actor and director of children's cinema Rolan Bykov, which a la Hitchcock appears in the film in a small episode. The film is shot in the genre of children's eccentric comedy of positions.

Little known, black and white picture, in my opinion, is a perfect example of how to make a surprisingly kind, interesting, unpredictable and very funny film without special effects, in a black and white image.
Advantages:

- An exemplary scenario, interesting, logical, thought-out, where every little thing is thought out and “shots out”. All plot lines are developed and completed.

- Roland Bykov was famous for his ability to select young actors: the guys perfectly coped with the roles of a champion cyclist and a master of all hands Valera and a kind, but not able to do anything Zheka.
- Zoya Fedorova is great in a wonderful comedy role, like other "aunts" (Antonina Dmitrieva, Lyudmila Chernysheva).
- With subtle humor, the figure of Uncle Koli (Sergey Filippov, who did not participate in the film) is played.
- I really liked the scene with the queue for tickets to the cinema (umbrellas, torrential rain), where the cult film “The Death of a Cyclist” (1955).
- Good work with animals in the film (the geese scene and the dog scene).
No downsides.

Although the film belongs to the category of children, most likely, modern schoolchildren will be scared away by the black and white picture, the naivety of the plot and the lack of special effects.

The film is intended, first of all, for all fans and connoisseurs of Soviet cinema; lovers of funny children's comedies; as well as tired of the dominance of thoughtless action and horror of Western cinema and modern Russian neo-black.

10 out of 10

Everyone knows 'Welcome, or no outsiders allowed ' Elem Klimov. Everyone loves this movie and finds a lot of modernity in it. I don't mind, I love him too.

But almost no one remembers this movie, 'Gone Summer' No way. He's just as cool. Yeah, it's less satire, but it's nicer. He is very kind, a huge number of directorial and camera finds. Filmed absolutely in the genre of Bykov, sometimes with some Chaplin scenes.
This work can be safely considered a harbinger of Klimov’s 'Inochkin'.

I recommend watching. My kids even enjoyed watching it.

A black and white film about the summer adventures of two friends. The boys go to a provincial town to stay with the aunts of one of them, but on the way it is he who skips, and the second has no choice but to appear to the aunts under the guise of their nephew. Funny curiosities accompany their vacation, reminiscent of “Prince and the Beggar” and similar stories about changing characters.

A good comedy, and if it were a little brighter, would look good and modern children.

7 out of 10