La Bella Estate (2023)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 111 minuten
Alternative titles: Beautiful Summer / The Beautiful Summer
Country:
Italy
Directed by: Laura Luchetti
Stars: Deva Cassel, Yile Yara Vianello and Nicolas Maupas
IMDb score:
5,5 (814)
Releasedate: 24 August 2023
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
La Bella Estate plot
Sixteen-year-old Ginia finds love with a painter in Turin in 1938. In Amelia she finds a provocative peer who offers her a different perspective on life. A new desire grows which confuses Ginia and which she finds difficult to put into words.
Actors and actresses
Ginia
Amelia
Severino
Guido
Rodrigues
Rosa
Massimo
Mrs. Gemma
Dr. Andrea
Reviews & comments
Fransman
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- 3057 messages
- 2298 votes
No one was interested in this yet? Can't be seen until September. That's a very long wait for this beautifully made Italian film. But maybe a bit slow and not for everyone's taste. 17-year-old Ginia (beautiful role by Yile Yara Vianello) is on the brink of adulthood. She is successful as a clothing designer and takes the first steps on the path of love. She comes into contact with a group of bohemian artists and their models, and with their free manners. That world attracts her, but also makes her insecure. She gives herself to an unattached painter, but only really falls in love with his model Amelia.
Don't expect stormy romances. Everything is done very carefully, as was appropriate for the time. I found it moving. Also Ginia loses her way, no longer understands exactly what she feels for whom and falls into a crisis, which also causes her to lose her job. On IMDb they were not very enthusiastic, and it must be said, three quarters of the way through the film the director no longer seems to know how to proceed with her characters. But the ending is again (for me) believable.
The film has a clear erotic undertone, and it shows. Yile Yara Vianello has a beautiful face that will last you a while. The film is beautiful in design and photography, with beautiful images of a snowy Turin when that 'Beautiful Summer' (a somewhat meaningless title) is over. The story takes place in fascist Italy, with a screaming Mussolini in the background. But ideology plays no further role. Young people just want to enjoy life. And that has always been the case.
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