LA DOLCE VILLA

Name: LA DOLCE VILLA
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"One Life-Changing Summer In Italy"

Family Content: +1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

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What You Need To Know:

LA DOLCE VILLA is a light romance on Netflix. Eric, a widowed restaurant consultant, travels to Italy to stop his daughter from purchasing and renovating a rundown villa. Their relationship has been strained since his wife’s death three years ago. Olivia ignores her father’s worries and purchases the rundown villa anyway. Still intent on trying to dissuade Olivia from making a new life in Italy, Eric decides to stay for a month and help with the renovations. However, he begins to fall in love with the small town of Montezera and its inhabitants, including the female mayor. Eric wonders if Italy might be a fresh start for him.

LA DOLCE VILLA is a sweet romance with compelling subplots about family and taking chances. The movie has high production values, with excellent performances and beautiful shots of the Italian countryside. The movie has a strong moral worldview. It stresses family, community and helping others. However, characters drink alcohol in some scenes. Also, one scene implies the father slept with the female mayor. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and young teenagers.

Content:

(BB, Fe, S, A, M):
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Strong moral worldview, with many scenes featuring characters helping each other (old women in town help man woo female mayor, man and his daughter’s friends help prove the villa legally belongs to them by spending all night combing through the town record room), as well as an emphasis on family where father and daughter repair their strained relationship and agree to be more honest and present with each other going forward, but one scene features a light feminist worldview, where man and his new girlfriend discuss the difficulties of her being a female mayor;
Foul Language:
No foul language;
Violence:
No violence;
Sex:
An image of two people in a bedroom implies fornication;
Nudity:
No nudity;
Alcohol Use:
Many scenes feature alcohol being consumed at dinner or parties, but never to excess;
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or drugs; and,
Miscellaneous Immorality:
Father and daughter have a strained relationship and daughter often speaks disrespectfully to him but they eventually repair their relationship and become closer, daughter initially lies to her father about why she’s going to Rome but eventually comes clean about her design apprenticeship and he’s happy for her, a town official purposefully brings an American couple to small Italian town to claim falsely an American family’s villa so that the father will leave Italy, because the town official is jealous of the man’s growing relationship with the town’s female mayor, but the official’s dastardly plan is foiled.

More Detail:

In Netflix’s LA DOLCE VILLA, uptight widower Eric Field travels to Italy to discourage his daughter, Olivia, from purchasing and renovating a rundown villa. However, as he spends more time getting to know the town and its inhabitants, he wonders if life in Italy might also be what he himself wants.

After hearing his daughter, Olivia, plans to take advantage of Italy’s one-euro-house system, restaurant consultant Eric Field heads to the small town of Montezera to stop her. The two have had a strained relationship since the death of Eric’s wife and Olivia’s mother three years ago\. Olivia ignores her dad’s worries about her new project and purchases the rundown villa. Still working to dissuade her from making a new life in Italy, Eric plans to stay for a month and help with the renovations.

As the renovations commence, Eric becomes increasingly thrown together with Francesca, the town’s mayor. The villa project is the first one-euro house in Montezera, and Francesca is desperate to make it work so that the city can apply for more government funding and increase tourism. Eric begins to fall for Italy’s charms and even begins cooking again. He was a chef before he got married but gave it up to be more practical.

Excited about the villa’s possibilities, Eric pitches turning it into a cooking school. Everyone agrees, and renovations continue. However, Olivia is worried about his reaction when he finds out she’s been considering moving to Rome to be an apprentice to an interior designer.

A plot twit threatens to dash Eric’s dreams about the new cooking school.

LA DOLCE VILLA has a strong moral worldview. It stresses family, community, hospitality, and helping others. However, characters drink alcohol in some scenes, but never to excess. Also, one scene implies the father and the female mayor slept together. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and young teenagers.

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Quality:

- Content: +1