Heure Bleue Film Club: Summer Night (1986) Screening

On Sunday, July 30th join us for a screening of Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmuller’s sharp comedy Summer Night at 8 pm.

DOORS: 7 PM

SCREENING: 8 PM (1h38min)

About Heure Bleue Film Club:

HBFC is a new series of monthly film screenings hosted and curated by independent film programmers Bouchra Assou and Chelsea Sweetin at The Diving Bell Social Club.

About Summer Night (1986):

GOWNS BY VALENTINO, CHAINS BY BULGARI

Summer Night (Italian: Notte d’estate con profilo greco, occhi a mandorla e odore di basilico, also known as Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil) is a sexy and sharp comedy written and directed by Lina Wertmüller (the first female director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director). It stars a Valentino-clad Mariangela Melato (frequent collaborator and muse of Lina) as a snobby aristocrat who holds an infamous terrorist-kidnapper hostage for ransom in her remote palace in Sardinia.

In 1987, the film was dubbed by The New York Times as “chicly boring, though extremely well dressed”

Think: sexual politics, class war, glamour, Valentino gowns and Bulgari chains, a fabulous villa on the coast of Sardinia and yachts, sexual games, etc.

Date and Time

Sunday, Jul 30 , 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Registration End Date

Sunday, Jul 30

Location