Summertime
‘Summertime’ combines the conventional structure of classic movie romance with a sensual same-sex frankness that couldn't be more up-to-date.
Summertime
In 1971 France, Delphine, the daughter of farmers, moves to Paris to break free from her rural lifestyle and to gain financial independence. There, she meets Carole, a Parisian actively involved in the stirrings of the feminist movement who also has a boyfriend. The two women begin an affair that turns their lives upside down.
“Sex and love have always been pervasive in French cinema, and both fuel Catherine Corsini’s moving lesbian drama ‘Summertime.’” (Film Journal)
“Sex and love have always been pervasive in French cinema, and both fuel Catherine Corsini’s moving lesbian drama ‘Summertime.’” (Film Journal)
Runtime
105
Language
French
Director
Catherine Corsini
Writer(s)
Catherine Corsini
Cast
Cécile De France,
Izïa Higelin,
Kévin Azaïs
Awards:
Nominee, Best Actress, Cesar Awards
Nominee, Best Supporting Actress, Cesar Awards
FEATURED REVIEW
Melissa Anderson, L.A. Weekly
Catherine Corsini’s lovely, sultry Summertime, a 1971-set tale about two women of different ages and class backgrounds who fall in love, celebrates erotic abandon but never loses its mind. Unlike Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), France’s most notorious treatment of a sapphic ...
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