Container of (work) : Summertime (Motion picture : 1955)
Notes:
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Darren McGavin, Jane Rose, Mari Aldon, MacDonald Parke, Gaetano Autiero, Jeremy Spenser, Isa Miranda. Based on the play "The time of the cuckoo" by Arthur Laurents. Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. Full screen 1.37:1. Accompanied by booklet (12 pages) containing essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek. Special features: new interview with film historian Melanie Williams; interview from 1963 with director David Lean; audio excerpts from a 1988 interview with cinematographer Jack Hildyard; trailer; essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek.
Summary:
In a tour de force of fearless vulnerability, Katharine Hepburn embodies the conflicting emotions that stir the heart of a lonely, middle-aged American tourist who is forced to confront her deep-seated insecurities when she is drawn into a seemingly impossible affair with a charming Italian shopkeeper amid the ancient city's canals and piazzas.
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