Sunshine through lush foliage, rustling breezes, cicadas and crickets, hazy vistas, languid days... I love and search for these films.

Must have: a significant part of the film or at least a critical scene with the "dappled summer" criterion of sunshine amidst greenery.

Usually: filmed in natural daylight, outdoors in nature in the spring or summer, with a soundtrack with field recordings of insects and wind through leaves.

Excludes: urban, dry or treeless settings (no desert, scrubland, grassland, savanna, tundra..) and most beach movies with a few honourable exceptions. Also fiction preferred to documentaries, mainly, and colour to black & white almost always.

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)

Geoffrey Rush, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ryan Reynolds, and Mark Strong in Green Lantern (2011)

James Mason, Edward Fox, Cheryl Campbell, and Rebecca Saire in The Shooting Party (1985)

Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots, and Senan Jennings in Vivarium (2019)

Parker Sawyers and Henry Golding in Monsoon (2019)

Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce in The Wife (2017)

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