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Beach House

1977 · 106 min

A sun-drenched, chaotic Italian comedy where overlapping stories of desire and absurdity unfold under a beach house roof.

Overview: Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.

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Tone: absurdstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
sexuality
family
deception
class
Places: sea
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	7
Realism	7
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	3

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Sergio Citti
Written by: Sergio Citti, Vincenzo Cerami
Starring: Ugo Tognazzi, Mariangela Melato, Anna Melato, Gigi Proietti, Paolo Stoppa, Flora Carabella, Jodie Foster, Marco Marsili
Music: Gianni Mazza
Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli
Runtime: 106 min
Country: Italy
Languages: Italian

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