FIVE SUMMER STORIES

Le Royal, Biarritz

Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 20:30

Le Royal, Biarritz

Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 20:30

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of FIVE SUMMER STORIES,

Around the Waves is organizing a screening of the cult film in a restored and remastered version

Thursday, December 15 at Le Royal cinema in Biarritz

the film

FIVE SUMMER STORIES

1972 (USA) - 80 minutes

Trailer: https://youtu.be/Nhu5EfNBvzY

Written and directed by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman

Filmed by Greg MacGillivray, Freeman, Bud Browne and George Greenough Narrated by Drew Kampion.

Starring: Gerry Lopez, David Nuuhiwa, Eddie Aikau, Jeff Hakman, Corky Carroll, Buttons Kaluhiokalani, Dru Harrison, Shaun Tomson, Margo Godfrey Oberg, Lynne Boyer, Billy Hamilton, Sammy Hawk, Herbie Fletcher, Rory Russell...

It’s been called the finest surf film ever made.

When Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman’s iconic surf film Five Summer Stories premiered in 1972, it took the surfing world by storm.

The film’s unusual format – a montage of five-plus exciting, controversial and beautiful vignettes or stories – perfectly captured a fractured era in which an explosion of creativity and revolutionary change was shaking down the old order, taking the sport of surfing into new and unknown territory.

With its groundbreaking use of super slow-motion surf cinematography, Five Summer Stories took the surf film genre to a new artistic level, inspiring a generation as it depicted the pure, innocent joy of surfing as symbolic of humankind’s best possibilities.

Now, in celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary, Greg has edited a new version with ten stories instead of the original five.

Digitally remastered and with a new digital soundtrack featuring the music of Honk and the Beach Boys, this truly is the best version of this classic film.