Film selection for sun addicts
The fact that the winter solstice has taken place and the daytime hours are rapidly staying with each new day, for sure, pleases all our sun-addicted readers. For them, our today’s film selection! After all, there is so much sun in it, and so much sea!
The Incredible History of Rose Island
Instructive and inspiring melodrama based on real events. 1968, Rimini. A young engineer named Giorgio comes up with the idea to build an independent island in neutral waters. Oil rigs are his inspiration. The idea quickly turns into reality. And now, 11 km from the coastline, a man-made island with an area of 400 m2 is growing. Here the Italian authorities have no influence. Over time, the island becomes a place of pilgrimage for all lovers of freedom. An atmosphere of general permissiveness and fun reigns here. However, the authorities are afraid of the viral spread of such an incident. Will they find justice for Giorgio, or will the island manage to defend its independence in the eyes of the world community?
Country: Italy
Year: 2020
Duration: 117 minutes
12+
I hate summer
Fun holiday comedy. Three families who do not know each other go on vacation to the Mediterranean Sea. By mistake of a travel agency, they are all settled in the same house. At first, this causes shock and rejection among the main characters. After all, each of them, going to the sea coast, drew himself an ideal picture of relaxing with his family in an isolated house. And here you have to live under the same roof in the company of strangers, with whom even food preferences do not coincide. All this gives rise to a lot of curiosities and funny situations in which many viewers recognize themselves on vacation. However, soon the new acquaintances begin to get along well and even become best friends, not to mention the lyrical relationship that is emerging between their children.
Country: Italy
Year: 2020
Duration: 110 minutes
16+
Under the Tuscan sun
Solar melodrama. Francis Mays is a successful book reviewer. A woman is going through a difficult divorce. To help her recover from her personal drama, her friends buy her a plane ticket to Italy. Frances is so positively influenced by the trip that she spontaneously decides to buy a property in Tuscany. Her choice stops at the old count’s estate, which is in a rather neglected state. However, Francis is full of enthusiasm to put it in order, for which she hires a team of Polish workers. In the meantime, Francis is getting to know the surroundings, the people living here and plunges into a new dizzying romance …
Country: USA, Italy
Year: 2003
Duration: 113 minutes
16+
Summer 85
Drama based on the novel by British writer Aiden Chambers "Dance on my grave." The action takes place in the summer at a seaside resort in Normandy. The main characters are 16-year-old Alexis and 18-year-old David. Young people meet at sea during a storm, when David takes Alexis’s wrecked boat in tow. Since then, young people have been getting closer and falling in love with each other. They are young and full of hope for the future. Alexis grows up in a full-fledged family and doubts whether he should go to study further or start working. David grows up without a father and works in a souvenir shop with his mother. In the meantime, Alexis is in doubt, David offers him a job in his store. Unfortunately, the viewer knows from the first frames that the denouement of this story will be dramatic.
Country: France, Belgium
Year: 2020
Duration: 100 minutes
18+
yellow-eyed crocodiles
Drama, the heroines of which are two sisters. Iris from childhood was my mother’s favorite – a bright and charismatic personality, successful and purposeful. Josephine was more loved by dad, and she is the complete opposite of Iris, as she is notorious and secretive. As a result, Iris successfully marries, does not work anywhere, raises her son without much enthusiasm and takes care of herself exclusively. Josephine devotes herself to the upbringing of her two daughters and is fond of the history of medieval France. By the age of 40, she finally decides to drive her idle husband out of the house and out of her life. And he, not particularly upset, leaves with his mistress for Kenya to breed crocodiles, while illegally issuing a loan for Josephine. Now the woman barely makes ends meet, clutching at any part-time job. Then Iris, in search of fame and recognition, offers her sister a deal: Josephine writes a novel about medieval France, and Iris passes it off as her own and sells it, giving all the proceeds to the true author. To everyone’s surprise, the book becomes a bestseller…
The decoration of the tape is the French Riviera, against which most of the events unfold.
Country: France
Year: 2014
Duration: 122 minutes
16+
Sunny viewing!