L'été meurtrier

May 11 1983 R 2h 13m
Drama, Mystery

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?

Plot

Oozing sensuality, the seductively alluring Eliane Wieck arrives in a frilly dress carrying a small suitcase, with her demure German mother and disabled father, at a rural southern-French town. Pin-Pon, a car mechanic and volunteer firefighter, instantly falls for the charms of the mysterious newcomer, and before long they get married. However, was it love at first sight for Eliane too? What links her enigmatic presence to the family's dust-covered old mechanical piano in the barn? What drives the cryptic young woman? Is it hungry curiosity--or something far more sinister?

Written by

Sébastien Japrisot

Directed by

Jean Becker

Cast

Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon

Crew

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Production Countries

France

Production Companies

TF1 Films Production, C.A.P.A.C., Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)

Languages

Français

Awards

5 wins & 6 nominations

Trailers
One Deadly Summer aka L'ete Meurtrier Argent Films Trailer
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