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Sea Purple (The)

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 105 mins

Original Title

Viola di Mare
  • Director: Donatella Maiorca
  • Writer: Giacomo Pilati; Donatella Maiorca
  • Producer: Maria Grazia Cucinotta; Giovanna Emidi

CGiii Comment

This is what happens when the technical department just aren't good enough...spearheaded and let down by a director who compromised too much!

The camera is constantly moving, exacerbated by a bewildering amount of incompetent edits...totally and infuriatingly intrusive.

All the interior scenes are under-lit, the music is inappropriate and the script is pedestrian...yes, we know, all men are bastards....especially in a lesbian drama. Facile.

And...a haircut, bound breasts and a pair of trousers does not make for a convincing man! Ridiculous.

Forbidden lesbian love on a remote island in the 19th century deserves an injection of intelligence rather than this dumbfounding and infantile approach.

An unmitigated, time-wasting, disaster.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in a 19th century Italian village.

Cast & Characters

Valeria Solarino as Angela / Angelo;
Isabella Ragonese as Sara;
Ennio Fantastichini as Salvatore;
Giselda Volodi as Lucia;
Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Agnese;
Marco Foschi as Tommaso;
Lucrezia Lante della Rovere as Baronessa;
Corrado Fortuna as Ventura;
Alessio Vassallo as Nicolino;
Ester Cucinotti as Concetta