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(More customer reviews)It is no coincidence that we are introduced to the music of Tristan and Isolde at the beginning of this film. For just like the love triangle in the opera, we are introduced to the characters who will ultimately draw us into a most spectacular but deadly summer vacation at the Italian riviera.
We are introduced to two cosmopolitan, middle aged couples who are going to share a house at the beach for the summer. On the surface it appears like they are all rock solidly loving couples, however each person holds secrets, lusts and pent up frustrations; which we slowly glimpse as the film progresses.
Truly, it is melodrama on a grand scale... hidden in subtle ways through out the picture. Constantly I was amazed at how the actors played characters whose passions are just hidden beneath the surface, bubbling and just waiting to explode. You can draw many character parallels to Visconte's "Death in Venice" though I would not go so far as to say this film is of the same calibre. However, the lushness and the drama is there. I was drawn in and too late did I realize that I too was on the same path as the characters, hurtling towards an cataclysmic ending. Truly, you feel as if you are a guest at this vacation house and you are seeing what the camera observes, ala Robert Altman.
It was my good fortune to see it at the Philadelphia Qfest this past summer on the big screen. Watching this film in its proper setting allows one to be swallowed into it. You can still appreciate what the director was doing as you watch the dvd. If you can appreciate Wagnerian drama, you will love this film.
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A group of old friends rent a magnificent Italian seaside villa to spend the summer together. Their happy reunion changes, however, when Shary and Diego s son shows up. Amazingly handsome, David (real-life Armani model Thyago Alves) attracts everyone s attention. Even happily married psychiatrist Matteo (Massimo Poggio) finds himself drawn to the young man, although he carefully hides this from his wife (Maria de Medeiros). Soon a dangerous tension builds up, although the friends pretend nothing is wrong. Before it ends, this vacation will indelibly mark all of their lives.
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