The cinema is the reflection of many realities and human situations conditioned to external circumstances such as the weather, for example, often generated by the seasons that usually mark beginnings, ends or influence our mood (we remember the wonderful film: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring Again, by Korean Kim Ki-duk).
What can we live in a summer? travel, preferably abroad; staying in our town or city and simply not doing anything important; go camping and surround ourselves with nature (almost always sun, sand and sea). Also going from party to party, falling in love and falling out of love (living the first love or breaking up with our love of life). Do sports like crazy or crazy things, get bitten by a shark or think you’re a lifeguard; this and much more Hollywood and cinema from all over the world have been able to portray him in these films that we present to you below.
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Call me by your name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
Beautiful film of summer love in the beautiful landscape of northern Italy, where Guadagnino adapts André Aciman’s novel and makes us accompany the idyll between a teenager (Timothee Chalamet) and a university student (Armie Hammer) that goes beyond the erotic scenes and presents us with an intelligent and provocative relationship that raises the season, but does not have a happy ending. The film has undoubtedly redefined the cinematic summer. Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay included and turned its protagonists into stars.
Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
We continue in Italy, this time in Rome and with the iconic Audrey Hepburn (who won the Oscar for Best Leading Actress for this film) accompanied by Gregory Peck. This romantic classic by William Wyler, also called The Princess Who Wanted to Live, will never go out of style, due to its actors, photography and unforgettable scenes of parties and dancing on the banks of a river. And how can we forget Hepburn as the princess who wanted to live as a commoner passionately eating an ice cream before our eyes.
Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987)
This is another eighties movie set in the sixties. It is the summer of 1963 and Frances Houseman, nicknamed Baby (Jennifer Gray), is vacationing with her parents, Jake and Marjorie, and older sister Lisa, at Kellerman’s, an exclusive Catskills resort where she meets Johnny Castle (patrick swayze), one of the resort’s dance instructors and with whom you will discover love to the rhythm of sensual dances with a great soundtrack that raised the temperature in movie theaters.
Lilo & Stitch (Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, 2002)
Disney could not miss with one of his already 60 animated feature films. This modern classic of animation is not your typical conventional fairy tale; on the contrary, it is a hybrid of themes and elements: science fiction, Hawaii, family drama and Elvis Presley. An alien (Stitch) lands in Hawaii (sun, sand and sea) and a very special girl (Lilo) finds him and adopts him as a dog, a decision that will get her family and the entire galaxy in a lot of trouble.
Baywatch: Guardians of the Bay (Seth Gordon, 2017)
We all remember the series and Hollywood also remembered it and decided to make this movie, which went unnoticed on the big screen, where four lifeguards are forced to stop the criminals who are threatening the peace of the bay that they watch over so much. A film where, in addition to the sun, the bodies of its protagonists shine: Dwayne Johnson Y Zac Efron. To have a good time without pretending to be intellectual.
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The Beach (Danny Boyle, 2000)
not everything he did Leonardo Dicaprio before his long-awaited Oscar was success and gold, he has very few exceptions, one of them was this film by the good director who is usually Danny Boyle, who tried to reflect on the search for evasion and the hypocrisy of a perfect society. Driven by the desire to live exciting experiences, Richard (DiCaprio), a young backpacker, travels to Thailand. In Bangkok he stays in a seedy hotel, where he meets Daffy, a traveler consumed by years of sun and drugs who tells Richard a fantastic story about an island paradise that has never been desecrated by tourists. If you like Dicaprio, you’ll still watch it.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, 1999)
Again in idyllic Italy, this time in several summers during the 1950s. Great film by Anthony Minghella based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, which took time to be understood and where the triangle formed by Jude Law (excellent performance with an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor), Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow is irresistible because she exudes glamor and sensuality in this story of jealousy, personality disorders and threats in the sun.
Luca (Enrico Casarosa, 2021)
Apparently Hollywood’s favorite destination to spend an idyllic summer is Italy. Luca is another Disney story (accompanied by pixar), this time it is set in a beautiful coastal town in the italian riviera and chronicles a boy’s coming of age during an unforgettable summer filled with ice cream, pasta, and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his new best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a big secret: a sea monster from another world located just below the surface of the water. A fun mouse house movie where friendship and adventures happen in summer.
Mama Mia! the movie (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008)
The summer Broadway musical for the summer because to see dance and sing to meryl streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski, and Julie Walters It is a guilty pleasure that transports us to the mythical Greek islands and makes us spontaneously sing ABBA songs that you surely already knew. Themes like the importance of family, true friendship and honesty are molded to the rhythm of the Swedish ensemble.
Shark (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
Considered as an anti-summer movie, for a long time, due to the number of people who, after seeing it, refused to go to the beach. This film is one of the transcendental films within the great and successful filmography of steven spielberg, Y one of the first “blockbusters” in history, it also has the magnificent soundtrack of John Williams. A coastal town in the eastern United States is threatened by a giant great white shark that has attacked several people. This fact calls into question the safety of swimsuits during the summer season. If you are a fan of horror and suspense, this movie is a good option, because from time to time it helps to lower the temperature a little bit of fear.