Summertime

A young, good-looking, and inexplicably well-off gay male couple occupy a multi-million dollar unit in the historic Duboce triangle district of San Francisco -- they also own a sailboat and a car as well. The couple decide to host some strangers from Italy, who turn out to be a pair of bratty and insufferable teenagers.

After insulting their hosts immediately upon meeting, the two teens continue to disrespect said hosts by bickering like petulant children. Despite this, the gay couple chooses to not only be generous with their home, but also their time, because despite being young, gay, good-looking and rich in San Francisco, these two men apparently have no lives or friends, allowing them plenty of time to entertain their ungrateful and annoying guests.

The story gets even weirder and further stretches reality. One of the men decides to quit his job in order to pursue his passion of riding horses, which is made possible because his partner agrees to "pick up more hours" as a realtor in order to compensate. This is also perfect timing as their freeloading guests extend their stay from the originally intended few days to an entire month without anyone questioning it.

One half of the bratty teens suddenly falls for the other half, but the other half started off being a virginal prude who then falls for one of the gay hosts she originally deemed a "pervert".

Honestly, none of this convoluted nonsense makes any sense at all. The only thing that made this movie worth watching for me was seeing shots of beautiful Rome and San Francisco.

When watching certain feature films, and they are quite rare, we would dream of being in the place of the protagonists or better, with them. Experience what they experience, share their moments and be an integral part of their human adventure.

Above all, these are films that are part of reality, made of stolen moments, films that sketch life and allow us to escape from it. "Summertime" is clearly one of them.

At the end of the screening, we have the pleasant feeling of having spent a vacation with the characters, of having lived for the duration of a film a month of weightless moments and that time has stopped for a fraction of second so that we can experience a sweet dream. When the lights come back on we want it to continue and we find ourselves face to face with reality, accompanied by a slight feeling of nostalgia which makes us feel blue. Like the day after a nice party of sorts!

Here, the production is Italian but the film is largely set in the United States, this film allowing the filmmaker a bridge between the two countries.

We are not really in an overly sweet sentimental bluette but rather in the accurate chronicle of a summer like no other.

The film moves at breakneck speed and you'll be left wanting more.

The camera in "Muccino" knows how to be aerial, far from flatly filmed romantic fictions.

A quartet to which we really get attached, trying to guess what will happen between them and with what combination. But we appreciate that it all remains realistic and down to earth, just a magical period, an enchanted interlude for four people who will get to know each other and learn to love each other. We also like that the conclusion is more bitter than expected but ultimately much more insightful than usual.

The actors are astonishingly natural and in perfect symbiosis. It may not be a masterpiece but certainly a sweet and refreshing film.

A true bubble of happiness just waiting to be consumed.

There doesn't seem to be much interest in this film, perhaps the dreaded 'G' word kept people away. For the most part, the four friends live together temporarily without too much drama, but the interaction between the two gay guys, the straight laced virginal girl and the straight boy seems a little too tidy. I couldn't help wonder what gays made of this movie, with one of the two partners tempted by the female and the other lusting over the straight boy. A nicely developed friendship between the four with a melancholy ending.

A decent film to watch with wonderful acting and scenery that curiously keeps its audience at a distance by presenting rathe bizarre choices of its characters in their rather unconvincing relationships with each other.

Part soap opera, part just silly, it's redeeming feature is presenting the central Gay couple as relatable, likeable and far from the usual Hollywood stereotypes.

With a less rambling and absurd storyline, with characters making more credible and logical choices, this could have been a very special film. As it is, it's a reasonably pleasant, if mindless, distraction.

The actors are all attractive eye candy which disguises their often stupid story-lines. Surely it can't be that hard to write story arcs that add too, rather that detract from, the viewers enjoyment.

Marco and Maria are school mates from Italy, and vacation with a gay couple in San Francisco. Fun, cute, entertaining. Good quality editing, directing. good acting. Fun story line, treating gay couple with respect. They DO toy with the audience for quite a while to see if Marco or Maria will try the "gay life", since they make a big point of showing us how inexperienced they both are. If the gay guys live on the edge of Alamo Square, and own a SAILBOAT, the real estate agent must be selling a lot of million dollar homes! and one wants to quit his job. very understanding hubby. and what the ##$$ happened to the friend in Palo Alto who found them a place to stay? we never see him again after the first two minutes... did he croak when filming started? you'd think after flying to Amurrica, Marco and Maria would make the effort to go visit him. and who flies to Cuba for a day or two? I guess if you have the dough... Okay.. in spite of this, its cute and fun, and the whole point seems to be "enjoy you're summer vacation, whether or not it ends up going where you think it's going to go". Some missed connections. some lessons learned. Also called "L'estate Addosso". Good work from director Gabriele Muccino; he's been making films for 20 years now. Showing on netflix. Highly recommended!