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
A Five Star Life (Viaggio sola) Music Box Films Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: A- Director: Maria Sole Tognazzi Screenplay: Ivan Cotroneo, Francesca Marciano Cast: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Alessia Barela, Lesley Manville, Henry Arnold Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 6/30/14 Opens: July 18, 2014 A typical five-star hotel in the more expensive areas of Europe, Morocco and China would cost, figure, oh, $700 a night and up. And that doesn’t include the enormous tip that would be expected for your butler, assigned to you only, waiting in the hall at your beck and call with room service treats that, of course, [ Read More ]
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- 7/14/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Title: Viaggio Sola Director: Maria Sole Tognazzi Starring: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Fabrizia Sacchi, Gian Marco Tognazzi, Alessia Barela, Lesley Manville ‘Viaggio Sola’ (I travel on my own) is a great commercial to promote the Leading Hotels in the World consortium, but as movie it is pretty mediocre. The story spins around the forty year old, single, childless, Irene (Margherita Buy), who is completely absorbed by her job as incognito-reviewer of five star hotels. Her jet-hopping life intertwines with the brief moments she spends with her sister, Silvia (Fabrizia Sacchi), who is married and has two daughters, and her ex boyfriend, Andrea (Stefano Accorsi). Irene is self-sufficient, she doesn’t need a [ Read More ]
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- 4/19/2013
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Director: Rolando Colla Writers: Rolando Colla, Roberto Scarpetti, Olivier Lorelle, Pilar Anguita-MacKay Starring: Fiorella Campanella, Armando Condolucci, Alessia Barela, Antonio Merone, Roberta Fossile, Marco D'Orazi, Aaron Hitz, Monica Cervini, Francesco Huang, Chiara Scolari Nic's (Armando Condolucci) parents fight -- like a lot. His father beats his mother, sometimes in public. Afterwards, she runs away, but she always comes back. Nic is 12-years old. He is a callous ball of anger and resentment, teetering on the verge of becoming a sociopath. It is difficult to determine what is more traumatizing for Nic, his father's volcanic temper or the fact that his mother always comes back for more. Nic deals with the aforementioned family drama by role playing in borderline dangerous games with his friends. The games, which are centered around a dilapidated shed located in the middle of a cornfield, are riddled with psychosexual drama fueled by raging preteen hormones. An...
- 6/26/2012
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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