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Summary: Beautiful Fantasy and Tribute
Review: I love how this movie takes you away to a Greek Isle for a fantasy summer of fun, with a nice soundtrack and beautiful people as well. What a nice tribute this DVD is to Valerie Quennessen, who tragically died just a few years after filming "Summer Lovers." She is so gorgeous and so much fun that I can only hope she was like Lina in real life. She will always be my fantasy girl.
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Summary: A great escape from day to day life.....
Review: I never knew about this movie until the Summer of 1987 when I saw the video cover in a local video rental store. I had gone to Santorini in 1981 and spent 3 weeks there exploring it alone. The movie brought back many memories and I thought the portrayal of life on Santorini was very accurate. I admit I did not have a three-way while there, but I enjoyed it none-the-less!It was only recently that I discovered that Valerie Quennessen had passed away from an automobile accident. I found her to be the life of the movie and thought her beauty was unbelievable. One of her great lines was "Jealousy doesn't prove how much you love someone, it proves how insecure you are - Margaret Mead: I think I have that book here somewhere" At that time (1987) I found myself healing from a broken relationship and somehow that line of Lena's made me understand a lot. I had been to Akrotiri and Perissa Beach while visiting and found the film captured the feeling one gets when you are actually there. Unlike a couple of reviewers who were so disgusted about the nudity in the film, I thougt it was done with accuracy and in good taste. Europeans don't have the same hangups that we Americans do about our bodies. I applaud the director for not 'Americanizing' the film. Overall, it was a great reminder of my Summer in Santorini and I now occasionally watch the video when I am wanting to escape the day-to-day trials. It's a great video for escape and discovering yourself and life. Should you ever have the chance to visit Santorini, GO and HAVE the BEST time of your life!
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Summary: Beautiful scenery and relationships
Review: I remember seeing this movie years ago and was first drawn by the beauty of the surroundings. When I hear the word Greece, the scenery from this movie is what comes to mind. I could easily see myself living in this place. I also loved the story. After the two Americans get over their puritanical feelings they learn that love isn't just sex, it is friendship. If your friendship remains after the love affair is over, then you have found a real love.
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE!
Review: I saw it first on the big screen back on the 80's, now I have it on video, its a very good movie, but only for the open minded indeed, its's about freedom, places with freedom, beautifull locations and open minded people, it reminds us we can still think different if you can pay the price, my only regret is that it isn't a DVD option, I'll buy it instantly. I hope they intend to to do a DVD version.
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Summary: Amazing, outstanding, I want to go to Greece.
Review: I saw the movie in the theatre went it came out. The music of Chicago, outstanding, a young Peter Gallagher & Darryl Hannah, great promising actors at that time. I fell in love with Valerie. Just read another reviewer where he found out that she past on 10 years ago. My jaw just dropped. Beautiful scenary of Greece, good concept, pushing the envelope in the early 80's. I could hardly wait for the studios to release this film on video.
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Summary: Great combo of time, place and people.
Review: I saw this movie on TV late at night many years ago, and have remembered ever since the thrill I felt when Valerie first appeared. Who could believe there was anyone so beautiful, so interesting and so available, in such a place? I must have dozed off during many of the love scenes, but with my interest in archaeology and history, I locked in on the scenes of her working in the excavations.
Now that I am planning a trip to Athens and Thera (Santorini) with my brother and cousin, I ordered copies of the DVD and watched it again for the first time in its entirety. Even at my advanced age, I was amazed that the nudity and the plot actually got into a movie.
The clarity of the DVD is great, and with the spectacular scenery, it is too beautiful to pass up. I have faith that a version will be issued which recaptures the wider aspect ratio, and I will be waiting to buy it. I am forwarding the copies I bought to Ray and Bill, as part of the preparation for our trip in the Fall of 2004. Can you imagine what it will be like for three guys over 65 trying to get up and down those steep walkways where the actors scampered, each of us thinking how it might be if we could meet our own dream girl.
I "googled" Valerie Quennessen hoping to find out what she is doing now, and ended up reading all the other reviews on Amazon, including the reports her passing. That has to be one of the more regrettable events of the 20th century, but the great thing is that this movie was made, and that she made it so memorable.
Another relative reported that the excavations at Akrotiri were closed last year for improvements in preparation for the Olympics, but that important finds were on view in museums on the island and back in Athens. I hope that the site is open for tourists now that the Olympics are over. The possibility still stands that destruction at Thera is truly the origin for Homer's legend of Atlantis. For those who will never visit, this movie provides views nearly as good as being there.
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Summary: 'bout time....but...
Review: I saw this when it first came out. FANTASTIC!! I've been waiting a long time to get this movie on DVD. I had the VHS on my wish list to remind me to keep looking for it. Now it is finally on DVD but it is in STANDARD format not the original screen format. That blows! This is 2003, every film on DVD should be released in it's original format.
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Summary: Summer Lovers rocks
Review: I watched this movie 50 times while pent up in a Coast Guard Station in the North Sea duing the winter time. People from all over the island would come over and watch the daily viewing, which actually became sum what of a ritual. A few years later I traveled to Greece to visit the different places I saw in the movie and remembered so fondly. I was not at all disapointed. Greece is a beautiful country full of pleasent people full of great ruins of past cultures. I thank the director of this movie for making such a well thought out love triad done in the upmost of plesentries. I highly recommend the movie, the country, and of couse the threesomes.
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Summary: How Do I Get A Soundtrack of This Movie ! ! !
Review: It's enchanting. Sure there is sex, drama, it may even be a little cute... but it says, "Don't we all take the drama of love a bit too seriously? Can't we find paradise in each other, love each other as friends as well as intimates. Plus before the trip is through let's dance the night away. It is not perverse...it inspired me as a young boy to go see the world and there is more out there and when I travel now I do with the same enthusiasm I felt in the movie. It was not the sex, it was the understanding. Who we are. The Greek's ask the question: Which are you Drinking? the water or the Wave? I wish to drink the Wave.. thanks for the opportunity.
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Summary: I felt in Love with those Girls and the georgeus Island.
Review: Ive saw this film for the first time when i was 15 years old and i falled in love with both girls maybe i would like to take gallhagers place. I guess ive saw it 15-16 times now iam 35 and i would like to see it again .
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