SUMMERTIME - BLU-1955-KATHARINE HEPBURN-CRITERION COL

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• Release Year: 1955
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon, Jane Rose, MacDonald Parke, Jeremy Spenser, Gaetano Autiero, Virginia Simeon, David Lean, Tanya Lopert, André Morell, Arthur Laurents, H.E. Bates
• Director: David Lean
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Lopert Pictures Corporation (Lopert Films Incorporated), London Film Productions, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie