Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Kauf Buch No...simply NO! Do you enjoy campy films with near-zero story line? Experiencing the anguish of neurotic women who have no self-esteem...or the lying, cheating, thieving men who abuse them? Then: this film is for YOU! On a positive note, Venice is pretty and you get to see Piazza San Marco about 1,000,000 times.

ginagentry222 No, no, no, no, no. I could NOT watch Katharine Hepburn try to look like anything but the Italian dude's mother! Yes, the scenes of Venice are gorgeous; it made me nostalgic. I even saw the exact same statue I took a picture of when I was there; great to relate that way to a movie. But I'm sorry, Audrey Hepburn, YES. Katherine, not so much. But because I hate to come across like every woman in a movie should be some young nubile thing, let me make this clear: the Italian due was poorly cast. Katharine Hepburn looked like the middle-age schoolteacher. The Italian guy looked like a womanizer; it was hard for me to see him as anything but someone trying to pull one over on our dear Katharine.

vincentlynch-moonoi This is a rather exceptional film for 2 reasons. One is the color photography, all on location in Venice. The other is a very different screen performance by Katherine Hepburn. Together, they make this a "must" for movie lovers...at least once...and perhaps on your DVD shelf.It isn't that the plot is that difficult to figure out, Most viewers will know the destination after a fairly short time. But it's the road that takes you to the destination that is so worthwhile. The story focuses on Katharine Hepburn, a spinsterish, middle-aged tourist from mid-America on her dream vacation to Europe. She has a reservation at what we might today call a bread and breakfast, and it's just right for her. Staying at the pensione is Darren McGavin, a painter who isn't really very nice to his wife, though that story is very incidental to the movie. Hepburn sees only couples, and feels very alone and unable to relax and just let things happen. Through a couple of coincidences she meets 2 "men" -- one a young boy who acts as a sort of guide (sort of like Nando in "It Started In Naples"), the other a store owner who sells her a red glass goblet -- Rossano Brazzi. They fall in love, though Hepburn fights it, and is crushed to learn that Brazzi is married (though separated from his wife). She finds their relationship untenable, yet continues. Their time together is magic, but -- as we know -- she's not going to do anything dramatic. In the end she will return to America having had the thrill of her life...but be sad that it was only a fling.The photography is nothing short of stunning...as good as any foreign movie footage I have seen.The only two actors here who really matter are Hepburn and Brazzi. Brazzi is excellent...plays the role just right. But Hepburn -- mama mia! Her usual strength is not here at all. Instead she if weak and frail acting sometimes, often welling up in tears. Very vulnerable. And that is why it is such a great performance because, quite simply, it is a very different Hepburn than we usually see.Superb!

maryszd In this wonderfully dated film, Prudence Bell (Suzanne Pleshette) and Don Porter (Troy Donahue) are romantically involved young Americans in Rome. Prudence is a wisely named and intelligent young woman who in a way, presages the sexual revolution and women's movement that came later in the decade. She's a teacher who left her job after she was reprimanded for giving a student a romance novel. As a schoolteacher traveling alone to Rome, she's a far cry from the lonely spinster Katherine Hepburn played in Summertime (although Rossano Brazzi shows up again in this film) just seven years earlier. But Prudence is still holding out with Don until he commits himself to marrying her. Her opposite, Angie Dickinson, plays Lyda Kent, Don's ex-girlfriend who unlike Prudence, is sexually active and a rival for Don's affections. The adventure of Rome Adventure is really the adventure of young women and their sexuality. The film also is more of a travelogue about Rome and Italy than we would see in films today. These were the days before the advance of mass tourism and Americans didn't take trips to Europe for granted. The sights Prudence and Don see are astonishingly uncrowded by today's standards. Pleshette and Donahue are solidly unpretentious actors who were easy for their young audience to identify with. A charming period piece of a film.