Well for once all the technical people got together and made this film work. I have put off writing this, as it is difficult to talk about perfection, heaven, and yes! there is a table waiting in heaven for us also.



I became aquainted with this fil in the late 1950's. For some reason at lunch, this movie was being shown. In black and white. I loved readilly the narrow lanes as photographed in the film, I even looked for area's in a Michigan city that might look and sound the way they did in the film, my Mother and school braught me back from my dreaming.



I saw it in color for the first time on non cable tv... with interruptions of that I am sure. The color was there as a De Kooning painting, the sound was very well done. I got to listen to my heart break with the train and musik,,, the tempo being more and more severe. Well? ?? I bought a vhs with better color and frail words. Finally.



Katherine Hepburn has never been more feminine, and interesting, and damn sexy as she is here in this film. Hepburn has never been more available as she is in this film. Sexual, there I said it. She was never so senual as when she has her hair down on a kind of beach with her lover, and one know she likes it. She falls in love. Before the end of the film she meets some interesting people.



Jack Hildyard fotographed this film with love. Hepburn sitting on her bed and she glows through the heat of summer. All in white, as an angel. Hildyard did all the photograpyy and made Venice so beutiful. Still the sound and the narrow lanes though colored,,, though decades later, reminded me ? I suppose the boy and the others should have some time. REALLY?



Mari Alden, as a blond was very effective, if that is what a man needs. She and Hepburn have some interesting scnenes in the film. Isa Miranda looks amazingly bright in this film. The hair and her face and her carriage float her through this film. What was it about a blond woman with grey eyes and an affectatious way of speaking to the world, that now, no one can remember.



The birds outside my window in Meissen Germany, seem to say,, give the answer. I have ignored Mauro, the boy. Let me ignore him, see for yourself, about boys and Venice. But without him it would not have been the masterwork.



And then the music as the film ends. The music is never seen as special until now. Summer is coming, if you want to know how to survive a romance this credits ending music might give you a real concern.