111-13NOT FINISHED, 1955, BBBBB, David Lean

Summertime (1955)

Posted by Bil Antoniou on

DAVID LEAN

Bil’s rating (out of 5):  BBBBB. 

United Kingdom/USA, 1955.  Lopert Films.  Screenplay by , David Lean, based on the play The Time Of The Cuckoo by .  Cinematography by .  Produced by .  Music by .  Production Design by .  Film Editing by .  Podcast:  My Criterions. Academy Awards 1955.  

Katharine Hepburn plays an aging spinster who arrives in Venice at the opening of this gorgeous film. While there she entertains the advances of , a local shopkeeper who is immediately smitten with the American visitor. David Lean’s observations of the tourists surrounding Hepburn are all sharp and intelligent, while the romance at the centre is mature and erotically muted to perfection. Hepburn has never been more achingly vulnerable, the island city never lovelier.

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