Rendez-vous sur la lune

Guia, a young and beautiful woman, manages a famous fashion magazine in the Italian fashion capital, glamorous Milan. The trusted assistant (Carola) and her opportunistic partner (Marco) work with her. Guia is snobbish and cynical, her life takes an unexpected turn when, after the death of her father, she inheirits an old Apulian farmhouse, especially when the task of getting rid of it demonstrates to be harder then originally espected.

This movie is a tangle of characters. The movie is able to capture a lot of small things, details of their lives, that make them feel real and authentic. Pino (a majestic Neri Marcorè) lives in the farmhouse, he is Guia's cousin suffering from intellectual disability but in many ways he appears to be wiser then most people. Then Renzo, who takes care of raising his son Toni, is running the farm. And also rival bartenders Delfo and Felice, the romantic Mara in search of love, Rosario who alternates the butcher's job with that of real estate agent. Guia, more and more time is spent away from her glossy but superficial world, understands the beauty of this bucholic world and this simple life. Carola, that came to assist her, has a similar change of heart. Initially seeming mundane and lackluster the farmhouse is discovered much more as a temple for simple life. All these characters are the same, hiding beauty. Will Guia, Carola but also Mara find happiness discovering this beauty? All comes together in a majestic scene of the village festival involving chinese lanterns.

Good watch.