Summer as it used to be. In summer movies, it’s summer, sure. But it is not only the weather or the season that makes a summer movie. After all, climate change is not the only reason why we often associate summer with nostalgic feelings.
Summer feeling also means a break from everyday life and time for adventure. Particularly at a young age, the summer vacations are a time of transition and change. But also after school, summer is a time of departure, if only for vacation. Trips often bring special experiences and sometimes adventures.
That’s why summer movies are also about a time of departure and adventure. Still, the weather has to be right, of course. Stay tuned for the 15 best summer movies of all time!
Anita Ekberg in evening dress in the Trevi Fountain in Rome. This must be one of the most legendary scenes in film history, similar to Marilyn Monroe’s subway scene in “The Darned Seventh Year” (1955), which incidentally could also pass for a summer movie.
Yet New York can’t compete with Rome when it comes to summer nostalgia. But it is not only the hot summer nights that make “La Dolce Vita” a summer movie. Tabloid journalist and ladies’ man Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) covers all the hotspots of the decadent chic scene in the Italian capital: beaches, squares, cafés, bars, nightclubs.
Fellini’s masterpiece, shot even in black and white, gives a vivid impression of the colorful and the scandalous hustle and bustle of summertime Rome at the end of the 1950s.
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