Filmhouse/New Kalamata Cinema Club-“Summertime”

On Thursday, August 24th (at 9:30 p.m.), the film "Summertime" will be screened by "Filmhouse/New Cinema Club of Kalamata".

Jane, a lonely secretary from Ohio, is turning 50 in a few years. She decides to stop waiting and finally live. She had dreamed of this trip for years. The summer in Venice will come - soak up all the picturesque city's beauty, art, and romance. She will record images, feelings and experiences with her camera.
With the help of the excellent cinematographer Jack Hildyard, David Lean captures the majesty of Venice in technicolour in a way that the beauty takes your breath away. The lens is lost hypnotically in the city's labyrinth and, like his heroine, does not know where to look first. But there is something dark in how the British director captures Katharine Hepburn against the view of the landscapes. And the sensational actress knows exactly how to express it through her silences and big watery eyes: excitement that immediately, the next moment, turns to melancholy. Because there is something unbearably bitter when you face the beauty of the world alone.
The "love" that Jane experiences in Venice is not the movie. It is the (almost cynical) awakening within the dream of a film or even of life itself. A woman sees her choices and decisions clearly for the first time. This love is not what she dreamed or approved of. It will have no happy ending, no future (the Italian charmer is himself trapped in his own conventions). But, in the future, she will be able to look back - beyond her photo albums, souvenirs and postcards and remember that, at least, she lived it.

Comedy, Romance| K-12 | 1955 | USA, It | 102'
Directed by: David Lean
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
General admission: 5 euros
Entrance 3 euros for unemployed and students, free for those under the age of 18