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This is almost a reality TV piece. A bored in their routine Parisian couple decides to go off to Sicily for four days leaving behind their child with their Grandparents. The storyline is pedestrian like watching paint dry turned into comedy

They bicker About unimportant matters but never really with any venom in fact what they find out is that they really get on well together the scenery as expected is stunning especially Stromboli when they get to it on their mopeds.

Essentially this is a comedy semi mocking couples having reached middle age and with very little fire left in their relationship

Yet they clearly care much for each other and it is shown through many Sweet Little things they do or say to each other. So if you had to tag it with a genre it would be: Middle-aged banalism or Our couple is drying like paint on a wall

The two protagonists here are clearly comedians and this is the driest form of humour you can watch not bad at all and certainly very original

So the hashtag here will be #Dry.

The everyday life of a couple on a trip to Italy, with its problems of visiting and living together. Sophie Letourneur, the director and main female character, composes and creates a bitter-sweet chronicle recounting the little moments of this father and mother in parentheses: the children are always off-screen, in the apartment at home, on the phone when they're on vacation. It's a film without children, in other words, about the couple.

It's a very interesting film, because it shows that it's possible to tell a simple story, with many small dramatic stakes and a certain realism, and thus build something solid and a narrative over time, without being revolutionary, but with a certain passion for knowing how this story will evolve between these two characters.

It's a natural film, or naturalistic, whatever, about the life of a couple on vacation here in Italy. The choice of what to visit, how to get around, whether or not to go for a walk, and the challenges they set each other. For example. It doesn't sound thrilling, but it works, and the acting duo carry the film.