Summer Love (Dead Man's Bounty) (2006)
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38% of critics liked it
(13 reviews) -
16% of users liked it
(347 ratings)
Val Kilmer stars as the corpse of a wanted man in this western exploring the greed and iniquity of the lawless frontier. When a stranger rides into a small town toting the lifeless body of a noted outlaw, his intentions are to collect the bounty and be on his way. But the situation becomes… More Val Kilmer stars as the corpse of a wanted man in this western exploring the greed and iniquity of the lawless frontier. When a stranger rides into a small town toting the lifeless body of a noted outlaw, his intentions are to collect the bounty and be on his way. But the situation becomes complicated when the stranger sits down for a high-stakes card game with the drunken sheriff. With nothing to wager but the body he arrived with, the stranger calls the sheriff's bluff and goes all in. Later, despite the fact that he lost the game, the stranger vows to keep the corpse at all costs. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Piotr Uklanski
- Written By
- Piotr Uklanski
- Genres
- Art House & International, Western
R,
- In Theaters
- Oct 19, 2007 Wide
- Studio
- Barnholtz Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
Summer Love is fraught with feverish moods, bold imagination and a devilishly complicated exploration of the genre's iconography. It is also maddeningly paced, often like watching paint dry, albeit paint that's the garish tones of buckets of blood.
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, Los Angeles Times
Uklanski distances himself from the material at every turn, until it's difficult to distinguish the ironist's wit from the cynic's smirk.
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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
Summer Love feels more like a haphazard assembly of loose-knit components, jumbled together with obvious affinity for all varieties of a distinctly American genre.
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Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
This pierogi western disassembles the genre mechanics of the gunslinger movie and makes a Dada collage of its gears and springs.
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Summer Love has been called the first Polish western and the first Polish spaghetti western, though the truer description might be the first deconstructed art western.
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Cast
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Boguslaw Linda
as The Sheriff
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Karel Roden
as The Stranger
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Katarzyna Figura
as The Woman
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Val Kilmer
as The Wanted Man
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Krzysztof Zaleski
as The Big Man
