Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Italy through the big screen!

Have you ever seen a movie and then just fallen in love with places...Every time i see movies like: Only You..Under the Tuscan Sun..Letters to Juliet..i just fall in love with Italy ...the landscape, vineyards, food, fruit orchards...I would love to go to Italy and rent a stone house in the country with a market near by and just stay there for a while.

Only You
Faith believes in soul-mates so one day she asks the Ouija board, who her soul-mates was... it moved and spelled out: D-A-M-O-N B-R-A-D-L-E-Y. Later, at the carnival, a fortune teller syas that she sees a Damon Bradley in the Crystal Ball and Faith is convinced that he is her missing half but the woman also tells Faith: "You make your own destiny,...don't wait for it to come to you", but from that day she looks for Damon.
15 years later, she is engaged to a (boring) podiatrist and is making wedding plans but one day, she gets a call from one of his classmates, who is on his way to Venice, Italy. His name is..... Damon Bradley. She storms out and goes to the airport to see him. But she misses him and decides to go to Venice, Italy to find him.
Faith and her sister-in-law Kate embarks on an adventure that takes them on a car trip through parts of Italy, together with shoe salesman, Peter and Giovanni. Will they find Damon? And there is one more person that have a big roll in this story....Larry....Faith brother!


Faith have been waiting 15 years for Damon ... but when her soul-mates shows up ... with the wrong name but with the right love....she can only see the name...not the love ....
Cast
Marisa Tomei - Faith
Robert Downey Jr. - Peter
Bonnie Hunt - Kate
Fisher Stevens - Larry
Joaquim de Almeida - Giovanni


Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances is a happily married writer living in San Francisco but when a man comes up to her at a party, changed everything. She learns that her husband is having an affair with his wife! Frances divorced and moves into an apartment building for (what it seems) separated .. depressed people. In an attempt to make her feel better, send her friends Frances to Tuscany on a bus trip (because they could not go themselfs because one of them was pregnant). On a walk in Tuscany, she stops by a window and sees a house for sale. When they later have to stop the bus for a bunch of sheep on the road, she sees the house and bus continues ..... without her. Frances buys the crumbling villa and she hires a group of immigrants builders to repair the house and well....they are a bit odd...sweet...but odd.During the years it takes to fix the house, Frances becomes friends with a group of different people, she learns to cook, build a house, to enjoy life...But will she find love again?

Cast
Diane Lane - Frances
Sandra Oh - Patti
Vincent Riotta - Martini
Pawel Szajda - Pawel


Letters to Juliet
Sophie travel with her fiancé, Victor to Italy, in the belief that they are going on a pre-wedding honeymoon, but Victor has another love .... food! All he tastes, smells ... it's love at first sight. Victor, who is opening a restaurant, becomes more and more absorbed with eating, tasting wine & cheese and Sophie becomes more and more bored. She decides to explore Verona herself and end up in Juliet (as in Romeo & Juliet) courtyard. She sees women leave letters (asking for help with love,family,money..what ever the problem is) for Juliet, which is later picked up by a woman, who turns out to belong to a group calling itself: Secretaries of Juliet who respond to the letters. Sophie decides to help them but after she replies to a 50(?) year old letter from Claire , an angry Charlie shows up to talk to Sophie. Charlie, who is Claire´s grandson, think Sophie's advice to his grandmother is nonsense but Claire, Sophie and Charlie end up going on an adventure to find an old love....and maybe new love.

I like this ... It is a light and sweet romantic movie. I think we may have a new Hugh Grant in Christopher Egan!!
Cast
Amanda Seyfried - Sophie
Christopher Egan - Charlie
Gael García Bernal - Victor
Vanessa Redgrave - Claire


Trailers: http://www.youtube.com/user/FindingASilverLining?feature=mhum

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