On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two siblings navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Winner, Grand Jury Prize - U.S. Dramatic
Sundance Film Festival 2024
Winner, Directing Award - U.S. Dramatic
Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio
Sundance Film Festival 2024
“The feature is a visual poem, an enveloping four-stanza ode to experiences shared by a man and his daughters.”
Lovia Gyarkye
The Hollywood Reporter
“These understated scenes of familial intimacy introduce Lacorazza Samudio as a director with a deft hand for crafting character development from lived-in behavior rather than dialogue.” ““In the Summers” is the type of personal, confidently executed first outing that should hopefully put the filmmaker on an auspicious track to produce other keenly humanist work.”
Carlos Aguilar
Variety
“The most impressive work belongs to that of Residente, a Puerto Rican rapper otherwise known as René Pérez Joglar. As [Vicente], Residente avoids the pitfalls of playing bad fathers… Residente finds the subtlety in his flaws" “Because of this attention to the environment that shapes these hot days, “In the Summers” is brimming full of its characters’ internal aches rendered elegantly across time.”
Esther Zuckerman
IndieWire