And While We Were Here Page #3

Synopsis: While working on a writing project on the island of Ischia, a married woman (Bosworth) enters into an affair with a younger man.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Kat Coiro
Production: Well Go USA
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
43%
R
Year:
2012
83 min
Website
537 Views


great-great-great grandparent.

I'd love to hear the long version.

Sorry. Anyway...

so this relative gave

me the name of this...

great uncle who lives on the island.

So I show up...

he answers the door and he's like

the oldest f***er I've ever seen...

- easily pushing 100.

- 100?

Yeah, if not older. He's like deaf and blind

and about 4 feet tall.

And he mumbles a couple things to me

in some crazy dialect...

ushers me inside, pours

me a glass of wine...

and leads me to this basement apartment.

And, yeah, I never left.

Love teaches me to feed

on flames and tears.

To turn withered hope

green through desire.

To re-enslave my heart each time...

Love frees his noble face

from that heavy disdain.

Who was that?

Vittoria Colonna.

The woman who lived here.

You read that in your guidebook

this morning, didn't you, Jane?

Sneaky.

Yeah, I've decided to learn Italian

by committing to memory...

all the sonnets she wrote

to Michelangelo...

in English and Italian.

I thought Michelangelo was gay.

Ah, according to history and the...

muscular thighs of his

sculptures, yes...

but that didn't stop

her from loving him.

Let's hear it then.

In Italian.

Let's hear the poem.

- Come on.

- Okay, okay.

- I'm impressed.

- Thank you.

You hungry?

Why? You gonna take me out?

Yeah.

- All right then.

- Okay.

- Red, please.

- White or... Red.

- Uh-huh.

- Thank you.

So you're really not gonna

tell me what you do?

I write freelance articles about parties

and fashion trends...

in Town and Country UK.

There's something else.

I'm writing a book...

about my grandmother's experiences

in rural England...

living through two World Wars.

I recorded her for hours and hours.

But now...

I don't know.

What don't you know?

You wanna listen a little?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

Yeah, no, I'd love to listen.

It's all tangled up.

- Hold on.

- Okay.

Awful as it was, it made you stronger.

These days people whine about

all sorts of things and...

I'm not one of those old people

who think my time...

had the only joy and the only problems.

We all have our own private

wars, every era...

but it was nothing like...

it really brought people

together, the war.

We helped each other during that time...

we had to laugh, we had to smile.

Well, if not for ourselves...

then for the people we'd lost.

Now shut that thing off, would you?

Get it out of my face.

That is like a window in time.

The sort of thing you...

wish you always did before

someone died, you know?

My husband thinks I'm

never gonna finish it.

You shouldn't care what anyone thinks.

We met while I was recording her.

Bonding over Granny, huh?

You make it sound perverse.

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