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Is it winter, when Nancy Meyers bundles all of her characters in adorable sweaters?
Is it spring, when both the ice and Tom Hankss cold corporate heart start melting?
Is it summer, when everyone is confused about whether to marry Julia Roberts or Cameron Diaz?
Read on for Hunter Harriss defense of summer.
The romantic comedies of June, July, and August reign supreme because theyre totally unpretentious.
Theres no fussing over a winter holiday party, none of the production of a spring wedding or prom.
Summer is a series of lazy weekends.
you’re free to be a little naughtier, get a little friskier.
); summer flings come with a built-in expiration date for the romantically fickle.
And theres just something sensual about summer.
Our quinquagenarian heroines reluctance is demonstrated by the ivory turtlenecks she wears in the summer.
The summer turtleneck which is very much not a thing!
shows how key the season is to challenging these older lovers idea of what suits them.
Is there another romance more endlessly rewatchable than Jesse and Celines?
They walk around the city, talking in circles and half-thoughts, with bluster and moving ambivalence.
Separately, in the time since Prague, theyve fallen into almost identical dissatisfaction.
Celine is afraid to admit that shes given up on romance entirely: You know what?
Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.
They talk in and around their feelings and fears like the rest of us, right there on screen.
Baby, you are going to miss that plane, Celine says.
Technically, the summer solstice didnt occur until June 21 in 1994.
Can you believe it was nine years ago we were walking around Vienna?
Feels like two months ago, Jesse says in the coffee shop, but it was summer of 94.
If Celine and Jesse call it summer, thats good enough for me.)
InBefore Midnight, its 2013, and the last night of their familys summer vacation in Greece.
How can Jesse get closer to the son from his first marriage while living across the world?
Two deeply bored, dissatisfied Pasadenans shack up inThe Graduate, trying to pass an otherwise lackadaisical season.
Its a perfect movie about the awkwardness of entering into the contained chaos of life post-grad.
Its Lloyd and Diane (John Cusack and Ione Skye) against the harsh adolescent lights of adulthood.
Who knows if either of these couples, who linked up on a whim, stay together?
These romances arent the bedrocks of these coming-of-age movies, but theyre summer loves that communicate personal growth.
InEnough Said, Nicole Holofcener takes on a pivotal adolescent summer from the parents perspective.
Of course, and obviously, summer is also a deeply sexy season.
They intertwineso thoroughly and so sweatily that you cant tell where one ends and the other begins.
Its got everything: nostalgia, romantic frustration, a healthy revenge fantasy.
And, fine, true love isnt practicing lifts in a lake or doing the call-and-response.
