As the Venice Film Festival hits its 80th edition, and Don’t Look Now turns 50, we look east to that most captivating and cinematic of locations: the floating city of Venice.
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The Movie:
Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max
The Pitch: The great Katharine Hepburn plays Jane Hudson, a middle-aged single woman from Akron, Ohio who travels to Venice, Italy for a lengthy summer vacation. She has a gnawing sense that something is missing in her life, but finds herself yearning for adventure and being overly cautious at the same time. That’s when she meets Renato (Rossano Brazzi), an Italian shop owner, and eventually throws caution to the wind and embraces a summer romance.