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Directed by | Laura Luchetti |
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Music by | Francesco Cerasi |
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Distributed by | Film Movement |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The Beautiful Summer is a 2023 Italian drama film written by Laura Luchetti, Greta Scicchitano and Mario Iannuzziello and directed by Luchetti.
It is loosely based on a novella by Italian author Cesare Pavese, first published in Italian as La bella estate in 1940 and then in a collection of three novellas under the same name in 1949. [1]
The film, like the novella, is set in 1930s (1938 specifically in the film) Italy and is a coming of age story of juvenile love, hope and defeat. [2]
The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2023. [3]