I watched the film when I was a little girl. I watched it again few months ago and then I went to Venice last week. So yesterday I watched it again. The film is a little precious thing, good messages, excellent acting and Venice is so beautiful. The great thing about Venice is that it has preserved with its amazing historical buildings unlike most of the other beautiful cities in Europe that have been ravaged from the sixties on. Venice is immortal and magnificent.
I watch this film for the first time and yes, Venice is a leading character in this movie. Why did not they mention the name of a boy (cookier) , who played exceptionally well?
I've traveled as a single woman & met many people who became friends, however, I throughly enjoyed being alone. I never felt morose. I live in a 4,030 sq ft house by myself now & love it! Life is what we make it. As Leo Buscaglia said, " You come into this world alone and you leave it alone." I've also heard, "If you don't like being alone, you're probably in bad company." 😊
Same. I too have always travelled as a single woman, feeling a profound sense of adventure that was lost whenever I travelled in the company of others... so I stopped doing that in my early twenties. I love meeting the people who cross my path.... like ships passing in the night. But sometimes - not often! - I encounter a likeminded soul who blossoms into a cherished lifelong friend. I have found in my travels that the more upper-class the lodgings the less interesting the people I find there. The most interesting people I have encountered have been those who travel on a budget. What a wonderful sense of irony the universe has! 👍😊
I relate and i also traveled a lot met some incredible people along the way . I also live alone , but i am not lonely . I had many great experiences and love affairs , now i can truly say i am at peace .
The scenes of Venice alone make this a film worth watching, to say nothing of Hepburn's incredible emotional range as an actress par excellence. This was filmed before Venice became an overcrowded tourist trap. Arrivederci Venice.
David Lean's romance films are just unsurpassed. The pace of the films, the actors performances, the dialogue, the setting--everything so perfect. I've seen three of them this past month and all three are now among my favorites: Summertime, Brief Encounter, and Passionate Friends.
It's an old film, but rather an interesting commentary of mid-century American morality exposed for its contradictions in postwar Venice. You can indulge in Eisenhower era hypocrisy, or you can live. You can dine on delicious Italian .... "food"... or you can eat pills. And despite the stories she tells herself, her friends from home, and the people she meets, this is no 1950's fairytale, this is the messy real world. A surprisingly modern and adult story for its time, no one dies dispute the numerous instances of adultery, and the negative multiple depictions of unhappy infidel marriages.
Most interesting comment here... And the main protagonist still naive, she faces real life for the first time, escapes, and goes back to her cocoon, and will daydream for the rest of her life believing she encountered real love when all she experienced was a fairy tale.
Dearest Kathrine Hepburn was always a very independent soul..that’s what made her so special..looking for what she didn’t think was possible ..then finding an Italian man no less on holiday in Venice…did she ever come back or just get on with her life..loved her clothes so feminine and fetching as they would say..an amazing woman who could do justice to the parts she played..❤
I lived in Cyprus for 25 years. Women go there expecting their summer shag as they say. It's an island of romance and love. It happened to me. Now, I have retired and live in the Philippines with the love of my life! Life is good if you let it be.
why it´s so difficult to create beautiful relations between men and women? Love is there to make us stronger, richer, more divine - according to Plato. But on this earth it´s only about business (marriage) - or pleasure (adventures like this one). We need more authenticity, more soul, more truth.. We would be less alone on this earth and more happy. Beautiful film.
Because there is an evil group of people that have engineered society this way without us knowing. They use Hollywood films to influence our thinking. They control 98% of all media.
Charming beautiful movie with magnificent sights of Venice, excellent camerawork. I love watching it, Venice reminds me my St. Petersburg. I was in Italy several times and confirm, that Italian men behave like that.😊 Why did not they mention the name of a boy (cookier) , who played exceptionally well?
One of my all time favorite movies since I saw it in high school over 50 years ago.. Rossano Brazzi..... sigh. Kind of cliched but so what. Romance done right without all the crudity of modern films. Could have done without the fireworks though.... 🙂
She's got that something. She is beautiful. It's too bad our standard of beauty now is fish lips, skin tight clothing and 4 inch nails. I used to love when the Look and Life magazines used to come to Mommy's house. It was Maria Calais, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, Sophia Lauren...every one of them unique. All were allowed to age.
I was in Venice in 1987. I had seen this film years before. I had a love affair with the handsome owner of the Pensoine I stayed in and at a cafe I asked the band to play the movie's theme, Summertime In Venice. I have seen this film like a dozen times + and still cry when I hear the song and the whole movie. I have returned to Italy 3 times more, most recently last September. Not to Venice, but every place I stay in Italy I love. In 2017 I had an Italian lover in Milan. Not as handsome as the first one in 1987. Saw him again this last September. Italy and also Spain are so darn romantic.
I remember watching this film as a little girl. I wanted to watch it again and I found it here. Now I am older than Katrine Hephurn in the film and Iknow that i am too old now for romance, but I still love these kind of films.❤
My widowed Aunt remarried at 80 and she and her second husband, a widower of 85, had such a sweet romance and 13 delightful years together. traveling and enjoying life together.
My aunt found love at 68. This was her first love and she wasn't looking for it. It was the most beautiful relationship I've witnessed - full of true love and caring and laughter and fun. I asked her if she regretted that they had not met earlier in their lives. She said, "No. Things and people come into our lives when it's the right time for us. We just need to be open to adventure at every age." 👍💚
I love this film. To me it is about loneliness, love, trying to do the right thing, failing because love overcomes and finally sacrifice. I believe it was David Lean’s favourite film. Katherine Hepburn portrays the loneliness perfectly and Rossano the handsome lover. The scenery is beautiful but the story is important. Heart breaking but superb.❤️❤️
I am pro marriage. I do not think this story is immoral because in the end the heroine pays the price and goes home. She could have stayed. She slips up but leaves. Some of these comments are way over the top and a few unpleasant. We are all entitled to our own opinions. Thank you.🙏🙏🙏🙏
I think she was quite lovely with a very good figure. There was nothing old about her...she wasn't 18 but who wants to fall in love with anyone in that shallow age. I thought they made a great couple. Remember as well, Rossano Brazzi
Gorgeous movie. So poignant, so beautifully acted. Venice was even the bigger star. Just went there this year. So crowded. It was nice to see it back when. Italians in the street, not just tourists. It was still fabulous, a must see.
Not a particular Kate Hepburn fan but the movie is from the 50s and brings back a lot of memories when my family was on vacation there in the 50s! I think it’s a very romantic film but it also show the darker site once in a while like when they throw their garbage from the window into the water. It smells there all the time. Hepburn ruined her health falling into the polluted waters . If you can get over the negative parts then it’s a nice romantic movie especially for people who have experienced Italy on the 50s!
A beautiful movie about Venice, which I first experienced as a young bride, on a Swedish ship, coming from Australia, in 1970. A short while after this movie was made. Wonderful acting.❤
So nice to read about your first memory of Venice. I visited for the first time in 1972, not long after you did. Traveling on the vaporetto toward St. Marks Square, with the sun glistening on the canal and the old palazzi, one appearing after the last, still standing proud at the waterfront’s edge, was an experience I have never forgotten.
1955 was another time for romance. Italian men offered the romantic dreams that many women harbored. She was an old spinster and wanted to feel the emotion of loving, being loved, and the feeling of passion. Italian wives of the era knew that their husbands would stray and closed their eyes to that behavior, and kept the families intact. I remember women in those days saying "He will always come home to me."
Believe me or not, I found by chance the red goblet and I smiled - a commercial one for sure. The store was ones of the many around Piazza S.Marco that sells Murano glasses.
So many alarmingly stupid comments. Innocent Americans abroad: Henry James? David Lean's stunning direction... perhaps before commenting, get a life, AND read a book and watch a few movies.
Oh! I've heard of this film! They did a number of takes of Hepburn falling into the canal. The horrible, poisonous, polluted canal. If you've seen her later movies, you'll notice that Kate always tried to keep half her face away from the camera. She got an incurable eye infection from the Venice canal, and one of her eyes constantly shed tears for the rest of her life. Can you imagine the legal award if that happened today? But in 1955, if you were an actress who ever hoped to make another film, you did NOT sue your director/producer/studio, no matter what they did to you.
I enjoyed this film......Shyness......Dreams of Fantasy....Breathtaking architecture and if permeates the air with Romance....Just lovely although a bit sad....yet all too REAL.....
I love this, i'm sure that many women have travelled in the hope of finding romance and this is a romantic film. If you think that it isn't then you can't read body language, Brazzi is gorgeous.I would have loved to be sat opposite him, sharing a bottle of wine.
@@maggieperry-og9gr si parla sempre dei soliti ignoti ma rossano brazzi era molto amato dalle donne americane ed era un bravissimo attore con classe e stile almeno fino agli anni 70 dove pero' negli ultimi anni gli fecero fare film di dubbia qualita'. bye
This movie seems to be 50 odd years old. We took a trip 5years back, but little has changed, except the steam engine, water bus shape and free of local residents.
I fell in love in Venice in 1980...he was handsome, charming, successful, but after a week I realized he was tortured by his childhood...So, I went back to New Jersey with wonderful memories Only in the movies
In real life she and Spencer Tracy, who was a married man. Before his death. Had an affair. They acted in many movies together. Their acting chemistry together were flawless. Aloha! Oahu, Hawaii. Nov 17 2023. 79 year old Kapuna ( Senior) soon becomming 80 yrs young and spirit.🌅🌞🌈🌴🌺🏖️🏄
It wasn't just before his death. It lasted for decades. I can't believe people think they are independent women when they sleep with another woman's husband. That isn't being independent or honest.
@@vaska1999 Integrity would be to mention the husband's infidelity first because he owes the highest duty (or a wife is that's the case)... To focus on the woman first is taking responsibility away from the man... People can perpetuate this charade as if the man has no self determination and is inherently weak but it is an insult to both men and women... Vows are meaningless then. You forget one primary ingredient, the man typically pursues, not always but most often. Double standards are so destructive of human relations.
1955 of this film,,Rossano Brazzi age39,and Cathrine Hepburn age 48.So Cathrine was much older,I found it now.Her voice is like that.Yearh,the music"Summer time in Venice" was so popular.
Much to feel about this film....especially I it happen to be visited Venice in the past and trod the streets over there...like the main characters brilliant performances❤ i find it qjite.informative at the time very few could do the journey. Great cinematic skills in filming
When a rational woman encounters an emotionally unstable man...💔 & This man doesn't know he must be single legally then he can start this date or relationship 👎🏻 & Another man with that hotel owner One relationship Can never satisfy him 👎🏻
My once in a life Love Story is quiet different , but her on the Train and he running was the same as in my story . When i have more time i will share my unusual incredible unforgettable Love Story with you and it is more exiting than this particular Film .. 2/5 2023
@@patriciaporcaro8753 My unforgettable once in a life-time story will release some more tears in the end . I actually already shared my story on the video The Last Time I Saw Paris with E. Taylor . To find it klick on the title with E. Taylors picture on it , because there are so many different tittle pictures . Please let me know after you find it . Be blessed ........
A couple of things about Firenze or Florence and Roma or Rome , the summertime is when the majority vacation for 8 to 12 weeks to the sea or lakes. They hate the intense heat. Businesses close during that time.
