Shadows in the Sun
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Shadows in the Sun |
| Original title | Vengo a prenderti |
| Country of production | Italy , UK , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Brad Mirman |
| script | Brad Mirman |
| production |
Jamie Brown Gary Howsam Brad Mirman Massimo Pacilio Umberto Sambuco Lewin Webb |
| music | Mark Thomas |
| camera | Maurizio Calvesi |
| cut | Eddie Hamilton |
| occupation | |
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Shadows in the Sun (Alternative title: Watching the Italian , DVD titles: Under the sky of Tuscany , original title: Vengo a prenderti , English title The Shadow Dancer ) is an Italian-British-French film comedy by Brad Mirman from the year of 2005.
action
The young Jeremy Taylor works as an editor for a London publisher and is writing a novel. His employer sends him to the aging writer Weldon Parish, who lives in Tuscany. The author used to be very successful, but has not published anything since the death of his wife two decades ago. Taylor should get him to write another novel.
Parish blocks all attempts at persuasion and tries to get Taylor to leave. So he and his drinking buddies drive the drunken Taylor to a pond in the evening and pretend that they want to sink him there if Taylor doesn't promise to leave the next day. The disillusioned Taylor makes the promise, but is thrown into the water anyway. However, the pond turns out to be a shallow pool.
Taylor prepares to leave, but witnesses a word duel between Parish and another well-known novelist who also lives in the area. Taylor criticizes his work devastatingly, is promptly punched and is taken away by Parish in his own BMW, after the latter has pushed the novelist's car into a ditch. Parish drives in exuberance into a barn that is completely destroyed and ends up in jail with Jeremy. This means that the topic of departure is off the table again.
Parish's daughter Isabella and the village pastor tell Taylor that Parish wants to write in the heart of his heart but has been unsettled and afraid of failure since his wife's accidental death.
When Taylor and Parish fetch back a cow that night that the novelist had taken as a pledge until Parish pays damages for the willful damage to his car, they are arrested again.
Parish and Taylor talk shop about writing, but their discussions often end in each other's personality analysis, which provides food for thought for both. At the same time, Taylor falls in love with Isabella, which is not hidden from her father. After spending a night together, Isabella Taylor makes it clear that she cannot imagine a life in London for herself.
Another technical discussion between the two men at the pond leads to a heated discussion about Parish's fear, where Taylor grabs him with ambition and tells him that true courage consists in overcoming one's own fear and in taking risks. In the emotionally charged situation, it finally comes to fights. The next morning, however, Parish finally gets back to his typewriter. And Taylor ultimately realizes his place is not in London and stays with Isabella in Italy to devote himself to writing.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film writes that the film is not “in- depth ” but “ entertaining ”. It is "constructed according to familiar genre patterns ".
background
The film was shot in London and Tuscany - mainly in Siena . Its production cost an estimated 10 million US dollars .
Web links
- Shadows in the Sun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shadows in the Sun at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ release document for Shadows in the Sun . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 381 DVD).
- ^ Shadows in the Sun. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Filming locations for The Shadow Dancer
- ^ Business Data for The Shadow Dancer