Bare, improvised film (somewhat akin to watching a holiday video - not one of my holiday videos, I hasten to add) has no music and 'natural' sound, and remote shot lengths, and shows emotionally-repressed woman Kathryn Worth staying with her old school chum Mary Roscoe, her family and friends in Tuscany (near Siena), including young Tom Hiddlestone, for whom she falls.
Reminded me a great deal of Rohmer's Le Rayon Vert in both its subject matter and execution. What they don't share though is this one's sense of underlying unsettlement, which surfaces in (off-screen but potent) shouting match between father and son. Doesn't always feel credible, e.g. the scene when they've skinny dipped into the pool.
We didn't really like the woman, but I thought her friend was even worse.
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