A sentimental look at a reform era few can remember fondly,The Summer is gone is already shaping up as 2017’s indie favorite for China on the festival circuit.In giving the economic upheavals of the 1990s a sentimental gloss,director Zhang Dalei avoids the grit of many of his contemporaries A sentimental look at a reform era few can remember fondly, The Summer is gone is already shaping up as 2017’s indie favorite for China on the festival circuit. Giving given the economic upheavals of the 1990s a sentimental gloss, director Zhang Dalei avoids the grit of many of his contemporaries