2016 · romance · drama
Summertime
Directed by Gabriele Muccino1h 43m2016
A gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
Our read: Summertime (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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“You want a sunny mismatched strangers story of new starts and unexpected bonds.”
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