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Summertime

Summertime

1955, Movie, 1h 40min

With this sublimely bittersweet tale of romantic longing, director David Lean left behind the British soundstage to capture in radiant Technicolor the sun-splashed glory of Venice at the height of summer. In a tour de force of fearless vulnerability, Katharine Hepburn portrays the conflicting emotions that stir the heart of a lonely, middle-aged American tourist who is forced to confront her insecurities when she is drawn into a seemingly impossible affair with a charming Italian shopkeeper (Rossano Brazzi) amid the ancient city’s canals and piazzas. Lean’s personal favorite among his own films, SUMMERTIME is an exquisitely tender evocation of the magic and melancholy of a fleeting, not-quite-fairy-tale romance.

Country: United Kingdom,United States

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Katharine Hepburn,

Rossano Brazzi,

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Summertime include Love in the City, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Best of Everything, The Blazing Sun, Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress, From Here to Eternity.

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Summertime was released in theaters on June 21, 1955.