Because nothing really happens in A Summer's Tale—a handsome young man visits an ugly resort town with lots of tourists, loud children, and bad music, and has a thing with three young and beautiful women—what holds our attention is the lyrical and at times hypnotic conversational choreography. The characters do say lots of interesting things to each other; the talk is not empty. But the sheer beat of the words keeps the actors moving in time, moving in circles, moving toward or away from each other. In fact, the scene where three of the main characters—Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud), Margot (Amanda Langlet), and Solene (Gwenaëlle Simon)—are actually dancing to music in a nightclub called the Hut is one of the worst scenes in the movie. These people do not know how to dance to actual music. They can only groove to the beat of a long conversation. by Charles Mudede