Summertime

Summertime is a gorgeously shot film by the French director Catherine Corsini that swoons over a lesbian love affair between Ccile de France and Izia Higelin.

The film is distinguished by magnificent photography by Jeanne Lapoirie and by the insightful screenplay by the director and Laurette Polmanss. It's enjoying a very limited cinema release, but is well worth checking out.

The juxtaposition of pulsating Paris with the static and reactionary countryside yields a compelling metaphor for Delphine's moral conundrum...What's frustrating about Summertime is its sometimes overly didactic tone.

There are many things to recommend Catharine Corsini's erotically charged drama.

Two dull people have a dull love affair in "Summertime," a French drama that drags on like an August afternoon.

What makes Summertime really refreshing is that it doesn't treat its central romance as anything but wholly normal, despite the attitude of other characters, or indeed, the tenor of the time in which it is set.

What veteran director Catherine Corsini is able to do with the powerhouse performances by [Cécile De France and Izïa Higelin] is to weave the familiar moments of self-discovery into the broader narrative of the early days of the feminist movement.

A classic summer-of-love tale where the struggle to come out of the closet are the central themes, Summertime is set in the 70s making the most of its gorgeous cinematography and attentive period detail.

The three women -- Delphine, Carole and Delphine's mother -- represent three very different perspectives on the changing -- or unchanging -- role of women.

[Director Catherine] Corsini pulls off an epic romance and an austere melodrama with great skill.