The Beautiful Summer

The Beautiful Summer (La bella estate, 2023) is an Italian coming-of-age drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Laura Luchetti, it adapts Cesare Pavese's 1940 novel — Turin, 1938, a city still at peace but already holding its breath.

Sixteen-year-old Ginia sews clothes for a living and has no particular plan beyond that. Then she meets Amelia: a model for bohemian painters, confident in ways Ginia has never let herself be. The film, starring Deva Cassel and Yile Yara Vianello, is less about what happens and more about how a summer reshapes a person — in the quietest, most exact way. Stream The Beautiful Summer (2023) online on iFILM.