I recommended this film back when we celebrated Katharine Hepburn's birthday, but it's also a perfect entry in our summer movie week, as the title obviously suggests. A middle-aged Kate Hepburn is a single, independent woman who journeys to Venice by herself, and proceeds to fall in love with the city and Rossano Brazzi, the dashing Italian stranger who sweeps her off her feet. David Lean makes Venice look ravishing (as he had a knack for doing wherever he filmed) and it's a gushingly romantic movie that may have defined the term "chick flick," but it's so good that it doesn't matter. Just let it whisk you away on the waves of fleeting summer romance.
Original 1955 Trailer:
