"One Life-Changing Summer In Italy"

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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.
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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 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.
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.