A hangout movie rendered in shades of Impressionism, Jacques Rozier’s “Around Orouët” is an ambitious epic of aimless idleness.
The film follows three young women who shack up in a family beach house in the last days of summer. They’re eventually joined by two men: a Byronic sailor, and an uptight itinerant hiker. This ebb and flow of relationships and affections more or less is the entire narrative mellowly spanning the two and a half hours of “Orouët.” Rozier, though, makes this final, slow breath of early September light possessing of a beauty that feels it could last forever.
“Orouët” is a movie pieced together from scraps of hope and nothing more. Rozier didn’t have even enough money to buy…