There’s a satisfying, life-affirming undertow in this story of a midlife romance set on an idyllic Mediterranean island
There’s a whiff of early Antonioni to the sunlight-etched, Med-existential backdrop, and the midlife malaise, of this Italian drama in which a French botanist (Bruno Todeschini) and a Pisan costume designer (Alessia Barela) meet on an island off Sicily to organise a wedding. Inevitably, they fall into bed, but agree to end their romance before the nuptials begin.
Trapping them in a locale from which virtually all youngsters have departed, journeyman Swiss director Rolando Colla – with three other writers – gives an entropic yet life-grasping undertow to their emotional wranglings. Occasionally it drifts close to over-indulging Todeschini; thankfully, the actor anchors his character’s bachelor angst with a sullen heaviness and flashes of underlying distress.
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There’s a whiff of early Antonioni to the sunlight-etched, Med-existential backdrop, and the midlife malaise, of this Italian drama in which a French botanist (Bruno Todeschini) and a Pisan costume designer (Alessia Barela) meet on an island off Sicily to organise a wedding. Inevitably, they fall into bed, but agree to end their romance before the nuptials begin.
Trapping them in a locale from which virtually all youngsters have departed, journeyman Swiss director Rolando Colla – with three other writers – gives an entropic yet life-grasping undertow to their emotional wranglings. Occasionally it drifts close to over-indulging Todeschini; thankfully, the actor anchors his character’s bachelor angst with a sullen heaviness and flashes of underlying distress.
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- 9/15/2017
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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