L'estate del mio primo bacio (2006)

Director:

Carlo Virzì

Writers:

Francesco Bruni (writer)
Teresa Ciabatti (novel)

Release Date:

1 June 2006 (Italy)

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Cast

Laura Morante	...	Giovanna Randone
Andrea Renzi	...	Agostino Randone
Neri Marcorè	...	Dott. Aurelio Sabatini
Gigio Alberti	...	Raimondo Florinelli Nardi
Gabriella Belisario	...	Camilla Randone
Jacopo Petrini	...	Adelmo Franci
Raffaella Lebboroni	...	Lidia Florinelli Nardi
Regina Orioli	...	Delfina
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Daniela Carrozzi	...	Maddalena
Paola Tiziana Cruciani	...	Rita Franci
Marco Rulli	...	Tommaso Terlizzi
Martina Tasquetta	...	Lavinia Florinelli Nardi

Also Known As:

Adelmo, torna da me (Italy) (working title)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Company:

Cattleya

Summer's almost gone

Virzì is no doubt one of Italy's most interesting directors, but the pace is much slower here than in other films of his. The teenage predicaments and great expectations of a lonely summer are captured quite successfully by the movie as a whole, but too many tales are started only to be left substantially untold. The acting is generally good, but rather subdued, with none of the performers offering a fully convincing feat. (I'm actually striving to remember a really good one by Morante and frankly I can't think of any, at least not in recent years.) There is an obsessive (and quantitatively excessive) use of 80s riffs throughout the movie, and one wonders if this is an attempt to speed up the movie or simply a captatio benevolentiae on the part of the author. By the way, I was there in 1987. "Lullaby" by the Cure was released in early 1989 (oops).