Synopsis
Indian Summer (La prima notte di quiete, 1972) is an Italian-French drama by Valerio Zurlini, available to watch online on iFILM. A burned-out literature teacher drifts into wintry Rimini and finds an obsession instead of the calm he came for.
Daniele Dominici (Alain Delon) takes a temporary post at a local high school, loses his evenings at the card table and barely resists his own slow decline. Then there's Vanina (Sonia Petrovna), a nineteen-year-old student whose affair with him gives neither of them any safe ground to stand on. She refuses to let go of Gerardo, her rich and dissolute boyfriend, and Daniele still drags along a fraying relationship with Monica. Fog, shuttered hotels and an off-season coastline frame a romance doomed from its opening scene.
Delon plays against type as a man who chooses to sink rather than swim, and it ranks among his most delicate performances. Slow and melancholy, it's made for viewers who love 1970s European art cinema and don't flinch at a bitter ending. Stream Indian Summer (1972) online on iFILM.
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