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summer's smiles
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Replica
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Summer and Smiles of Finland
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter: The Kingdom of Cuisine
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Ballerina
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Summer Wars
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Black Summer
2010s
Black Summer is a 2019 television series from United States, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United States. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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Austerlitz
2000s
"Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fle...
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Replica
2010s
Replica is the fifth studio album by American electronic musician Daniel Lopatin under the stage name Oneohtrix Point Never, released on November 8, 2011, via Mexican Summer and Software. It features co-production by Joel Ford and Al Carlson, and was Lopatin's first work to be recorded in a studio. Stylistically, th...
Anime · Strong bridge
Summer Wars
2000s
Summer Wars is a 2009 anime title tied to Mamoru Hosoda and Akihiko Matsumoto and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.
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Film 1950s
Smiles of a Summer Night
Smiles of a Summer Night is a 1955 film from Sweden, associated with Ingmar Bergman. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 1960s
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter: The Kingdom of Cuisine
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter: The Kingdom of Cuisine is a 1960 essay or critical text by Rosanjin, linked to a wider international field and Japanese. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.
Books 1970s
The Summer Book
The Summer Book is a novel written by the Finland-Swedish author Tove Jansson in 1972.
Film 1980s
The Green Ray
The Green Ray, released in North America as Summer, is a 1986 French romantic drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer. It is the fifth instalment in Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series. The film was inspired by the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. It was shot in France on 16 mm film and much of the...
Books 2010s
Outline
Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elde...
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Music 2000s
Summer and Smiles of Finland