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Summertime - Criterion Collection | 
 enlarge | Director: David Lean
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren Mcgavin, Mari Aldon
Studio: Criterion
Category: DVD
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Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 12567
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: PMIDSUM060D
ISBN: 6305094934
UPC: 037429130728
EAN: 9786305094937
ASIN: 6305094934
Theatrical Release Date: 1955
Release Date: September 9, 1998
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Product Description
Jane hudson a lonely and sheltered middle-aged spinster on holiday in venice. Her long-dreamed-of romance finally becomes a reality when she meets a handsome but married venetian. Their ill-fated love affair makes for a freshly endearing film. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 08/25/1998 Starring: Katharine Hepburn Run time: 99 minutes Rating: Nr Director: David Lean
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There was a time before Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago when David Lean made smaller, more effortlessly picturesque movies, and this splendid Venetian travelogue and love story is one of them--the last, actually, before the epic onslaught started with the Oscar-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957. "Sometimes I think a schedule in Venice is just, well, all wrong," observes a bewitched tourist to Katharine Hepburn's vacationing spinster near the beginning of Summertime, which is based on Arthur Laurents's play The Time of the Cuckoo. Before the end, however, Jane will have thrown her idealized romantic notions into the canals and embarked on a passionate affair with a married art dealer (Rossano Brazzi). More blissful than Lean's adulterous fable Brief Encounter 10 years prior, but not entirely guilt- or pain-free, this deceptively simple romance is an often-fascinating glimpse at a time when sexual revolution for Americans--and especially middle-aged women--was confined to fanciful European trysts. Plus, with all the architecture, art, Italian conversation, music, and fine cuisine around you (all richly photographed on location by Jack Hildyard), who's to pish-posh a furtive all-nighter between one repressive country and a free-loving one? The two leads are graceful and even musical in their movements and line deliveries. Hepburn's initial outrage at the idea that illicit love is part of her impossibly beautiful surroundings may at first seem outdated, but the Academy Award-winning actress is too good not to suggest as well the poignant, deep fear her character has of opening up emotionally to anybody. Ultimately, Summertime is the movie equivalent of a deep, satisfying sigh. --Robert Abele
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 Kate Hepburn Favorite!!! October 4, 2008
Ruth E. Bradley (Riverside, CA)
This is my all-time favorite movie--period!!! So, I was devastated to find that my VCR copy had lost a lot of color and sound. Thanks to Amazon, I found this new DVD copy to enjoy.
Ruth Bradley
warm memories September 20, 2008
Leonard H. Maynard
I was in Venice the summer of 1955 when this was filmed.
It brought back warm memories of my visit there.
Doc Maynard
The Ultimate Venice Tour June 5, 2008
Robert Nelson (Seattle, WA USA)
Even though the movie is nearly sixty years old very little in Venice has changed. Anyone planning a trip to Venice will benefit from seeing this movie since it perfectly captures the atmosphere they can experience for themselves. You can still visit the location where Hepburn falls in to the canal and the shop that was temporarilly turned into Rossano Brazzi's antique shop. The storyline does not overwhelm the visual experience of the city.
 Summertime, but not all the time October 17, 2007
T. Houlihan (Mendota Heights, MN United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this because of Hepburn and Venice and on those two counts I was not disappointed. The views of the city are outstanding and Ms. Hepburn's remarkable independence shines through. However, the story is stilted by the conventions of the era and David Lean's direction was so uneven it made Hepburn's character look kooky. Finally, I was uncomfortable with the way the movie tells the story of a woman longing for romance in (possibly) the most romantic city on earth, how she stumbles onto it, how she doesn't seem to really enjoy what she's found, then leaves the city broken hearted...just kind of blah.
I've Got That Sinking Feeling... October 14, 2007
Charles de Plume (Fullerton, CA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Venice sure is pretty. What an opportunity for David Lean to explore color movie making just a couple of years before he began creating his streak of brilliant films (Bridge On the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago). And for the film crew, a trip to Venice, Italy! Nice work, if you can get it. And now onto the story. What did Hepburn play? A retired office worker from Akron, Ohio? Oh, that's right. And the Italian lover? You know, Ben Stiller could have done something in that role (and with the script), except he wasn't born yet. One star for Venice. I'll give this flick a second star. I can't bear the thought of putting a Lean and Hepburn effort into the same cesspool as my one-star films. If you want to see Hepburn do something sparkling in this time period, check out DESK SET, with Spencer Tracy. Computers! And down-sizing in 1957! Now, that's a story.
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