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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time OutEric HynesTime OutEric HynesThere are subtler, more allusive films about stormy conflicts of the heart, but A Burning Hot Summer wisely knows when and how to surgically slice directly to the bone. It's a bad romance of the highest order.
- 80The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisIn A Burning Hot Summer (a pulpy title that sounds better in the original, "Un Été Brûlant), two men fall into friendship, and while little happens, everything is at stake.
- 70Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerAlthough Angèle's religious faith and Frédéric's belief in luck seem like strained attempts at adding heft to the material, the film nevertheless works up a potent dramatic restlessness, derived from the push-pull between an entitled, obsessive Frédéric and Bellucci's quietly chaotic Angèle.
- 50Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe Louis Garrel character's mixture of self-containment and alleged possessiveness over his wife fails to convince, if not to irritate.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA Burning Hot Summer failed to persuade me of any reason for its existence.
- It's apt that the Rome weather in this stodgy film, contrary to the title, seems quite temperate.