Women's Pictures

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Summertime

Tweet Review by Dean Duncan Jul 16, 2015 @deanduncan63

Saw David Lean’s #Summertime. Actually, as remarkable as is Lean’s marshaling of this Venetian location …

… we might just as well call it Katharine Hepburn’s Summertime. Do we remember or realize how good she really was?

#Summertime. Handsome, bourgeois (conformist, materialist), & on the brink of big change. For instance …

… in addition to being a bright travelogue/romance, it’s also about the terror, the tragedy of virginity …

… There’s a topic a lot of nice believing conservative people don’t like to talk or think about …

… or maybe allow for their nice believing conservative & unhappily unaffiliated friends.

#Summertime. Reminds me, as per its sexual content, that this is the subject that maybe most demarcates …

… modern cinema. Lots of nice people regret this, right across the board. Not so fast, maybe!