Summertime

David Lean turns Venice into a city of longing and possibility in this exquisite, bittersweet romance.

Katharine Hepburn gives one of her most moving performances as Jane, a lonely American tourist whose long-awaited trip takes an unexpected turn when she falls for a charming antiques dealer. Shot on location in radiant Technicolour, Summertime captures Venice through the wonder of a first-time visitor, and tenderly explores falling in love with a person and a place.

“So rapturously beautiful to look at […] that it seems more a song than a movie, a wordless expression of some ancient romantic longing.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Criterion