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Light in the Piazza

1962 · 102 min

A sunlit, bittersweet romance that keeps you quietly anxious beneath its postcard beauty, wondering whether love can outrun a hidden truth.

Directed by
Guy Green
Genres
Drama, Romance
Tagline
Were they too young for the love they dared?
Overview
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?

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Directed by
Guy Green
Genres
Drama, Romance
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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • family
  • identity
  • parenthood
  • deception
Places
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance7
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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