Remember the final scene of Go Toto! (FID 2017) : Madelene disappears, setting off to join the boar piglet she rescued and raised in her house in Vattetot. She makes a surreptitious reappearance at the start of A Beautiful Summer dropping Flora off at her neighbour Simon’s house. Audiences familiar with Creton’s work will recognise the filmmaker’s home and garden that, for a summer, have become the stage and set for a new transfiguration of life into comedy. With Flora, youth surges into the house, breathing its formidable energy into the film with a pop music bloom echoed by tracks from The Limiñanas. And there’s the youth of Ahmed and Mohammed, two young migrants washed up in Normandy, to whom Simon and Robert offer a roof, and share their life with. The “children’s” sunny, sensual insouciance and the soundtrack are in contrast to the slower, more serious and challenging mood of the adults. Sophie staves off her loneliness by observing Simon and Robert as they expose their relationship to the risk of Nessim, the African lover who’s survived Calais and the demolition of ‘The Jungle’.

這是一部調查紀錄片，透過一些由農民、研究員、農學家、作家講述的故事來探討現今法國的農業世界。雖然受到經濟、科技和社會的衝擊，這個世界仍然迄立不倒，無論是好是壞，它繼續為不同年代的人保持聯繫。農業世界是現今所有重要討論以及對未來探討的中心主題。
A documentary investigation of French agriculture today as seen through numerous stories told by farmers, researchers, agronomists, writers... It’s a world that manages to resist the economic, scientific and social upheavals it is hit by, a world that, for better or worse, continues to maintain links between generations. It’s a world at the center of today’s major discussions and questionings about the future.
"Le temps des grâces" is the first documentary movie by Dominique Marchais. Between bouts of anger and bright analysis, the film-maker introduces a militant film, not to mention its primary virtue : a sentimental celebration of the countryside. Critically acclaimed, the film is considered as one of the best French documentaries released this year.