Summer | The Green Ray (1986) Trailer | Director: Éric Rohmer

Eric Rohmer captures the ache of summertime sadness with exquisite poignancy in this luminous tale of self-exploration. The Jules Verne novel of the same name provides the loose inspiration for the story of Delphine (Marie Rivière), a dreamy, introverted young secretary who, reeling from a breakup with her boyfriend, faces the anxiety-inducing prospect of spending her summer vacation alone. As she bounces from a getaway in Cherbourg to the tourist-choked Alps to the sunny beaches of Biarritz, Delphine passes through a whirl of social activity—but through it all remains profoundly alone, searching for the true human connection that seems to perpetually elude her. As honest a portrait of loneliness, depression, and the longing for understanding as has ever been committed to film, THE GREEN RAY stands as one of the most piercingly perceptive works by the French cinema’s keenest observer of human relationships

Director: Éric Rohmer
Writers: Marie Rivière(collaboration)Éric Rohmer(scenario)
Cast: Marie Rivière, María Luisa García, Vincent Gauthier

Also Known As (AKA)
(original title) Le rayon vert
Argentina El rayo verde
Australia Summer
Brazil O Raio Verde
Canada (French title) Le rayon vert
Canada (English title) Summer
Canada (English title) (alternative title) The Green Ray
China (Mandarin title) 绿光
Croatia Zelena zraka
Denmark Den grønne stråle
Finland Vihreä säde
France (complete title) Comédies et Proverbes: Le rayon vert
France Le rayon vert
Germany Das grüne Leuchten
Greece Η πράσινη αχτίδα
Hungary A zöld sugár
Italy Il raggio verde
Japan (Japanese title) 緑の光線
Mexico El rayo verde
Norway Den grønne solstrålen
Poland Zielony promień
Portugal O Raio Verde
Romania Raza verde
South Korea 녹색 광선
Soviet Union (Russian title) Зеленый луч
Spain El rayo verde
Sweden Det gröna skenet
Taiwan 綠光
Turkey (Turkish title) Yeşil Işın
UK The Green Ray
USA Summer
West Germany Das grüne Leuchten
World-wide (English title) The Green Ray
Yugoslavia (Croatian title) Zelena zraka