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‘The Beautiful Summer’ Review: A Young Woman Blooms Into Herself in Gorgeously Mounted Italian Period Drama
Yile Yara Vianello is a buoyant delight in Laura Luchetti’s quietly rousing coming-of-age tale, 'The Beautiful Summer.'
Laura Luchetti ’s touching “This Beautiful Summer” may tread familiar ground in that regard, but her handsomely mounted Italian period piece brims with a such playfully coy sensibility that you cannot help but fall for its charms. Even as “The Beautiful Summer” hits familiar beats about same-sex desires, youthful awakenings and artistic ambitions crippled by traditional mores, Luchetti’s film is most rewarding as an acting showcase for Vianello and Cassel. Moreover, even as its lush production harkens back to more old-fashioned romantic dramas, its sound design (particularly during a sex scene at an artist’s quarters and later still during a joyful dance between the two young women) keeps the film squarely anchored to a contemporary sensibility.
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