Locarno Review: Lesbian Drama 'Summertime' Takes 'Blue is the Warmest Color' to the Countryside

READ MORE: Locarno Film Festival Announces Lineup for Its 68th Year, Awards Edward Norton on Opening Night It may seem reductive to compare French filmmaker Catherine Corsini's "Summertime" ("La Belle Saison") to the acclaimed "Blue is the Warmest Color" simply because both revolve around the ups and downs of lesbian lovers awakening to their mutual desires. But it goes much further than that: Both movies find a young, provincial woman falling for an older intellectual, while grappling with the means of expressing her identity, sexual or otherwise. Though "Blue" casts this plight against a much broader landscape of events, "Summertime" —...

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