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Ring in the solstice with the smoldering passion of David Lean’s 1955 sumptuous Technicolor romance. Shot on location in Venice, Italy during the sunniest months of the year, Summertime features Katharine Hepburn as a romantic lead. Hepburn is utterly relatable and captivating in her Oscar-nominated turn as Jane Hudson, an unmarried secretary on a long-awaited solo vacation away from her humdrum life in Akron, Ohio.
Featuring leisurely footage of the crowded Piazza San Marco and soothing gondola rides along the Fondamenta San Felice, Lean’s film, for which he received a Directing nomination at the 28th Academy Awards, manifests his understanding of nuanced female interiority through his closeups on Hepburn’s engrossing, dynamic face. Don’t miss this opportunity to see a gorgeous 35mm print... from the Academy Film Archive; it was struck in 2004 and has screened no more than three times.
Summertime was restored in 2003 by the Academy Film Archive and the British Film Institute with the support of the David Lean Foundation.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1955 | 100 min | UK/USA/Italy | Technicolor | English/Italian | Not Rated | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: David Lean
WRITTEN BY: H. E. Bates, David Lean
WITH: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin
New print courtesy the Academy Film Archive.