Summertime

Not particularly bad, but not particularly good, either. The film just didn't have much depth to it, I think. The high point, obviously, is Hepburn's performance. She's given quite a few great lines. But at the same time, this is one of the film's downfalsl, because you're often wondering why the rest of the movie can't measure up to one person's performance. So much of the picture just felt forced, especially music-wise.

I've seen many people compare it to an earlier Lean picture, Brief Encounter, which is one of my favorite romance films.. I can definitely see some similarities between the two, but they differ greatly in many ways, especially tone. For the most part, Summertime is light and breezy, very colorful, musically elegant andlushly photographed. Brief Encounter is gray, dour, full of disappointment and regret. Maybe that's why I didn't like Summertime as much, because it just seemed so much more contrived. You know, almost like a movie. Heh.