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‘My Late Summer’ Review: A Woman Resists Repeating Her Mother’s Romantic Mistakes in Poignant Dramedy
Danis Tanović’s 'My Late Summer' follows a feisty 30-something woman who is won over by a charming island when she visits to collect an inheritance.
Operating in a lighter mode than the fiercely astringent works of his early career, “My Late Summer” benefits from Tanović sharing screenwriting duties with lead Matković, as well as his “Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair” co-writer Nikola Kuprešanin, resulting in a more nuanced and well-rounded female character than typical of his films. After a local lawyer (Marija Škaričić) reveals that her case will require some time, Maja takes on a barmaid job offered by the island’s left-leaning mayor Icho (the sympathetic Goran Navojec), which conveniently comes with a place to stay. The evocative tech credits are aces in every respect, with kudos due to the atmospheric lensing by Serbian DoP Miloš Jaćimović (whose feature career started with the 2010 Sarajevo fest winner “Tilva Rosh”) and composer Livina Tanović’s melancholy score.
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