Les Italiens

In development - Coming of age, commedia

In the Argentine Pampas in the early 1980s, a mysterious Italian traveler tells two young lovers the story of a summer that seemed destined never to end: Saint-Tropez, 1968, the golden age of music, art, cinema, fashion, glamour, and freedom. At the heart of the tale is Gigi Rizzi, a charming twenty-four-year-old playboy—elegant yet reckless—who, together with his friends Beppe and Franco, Les Italiens, rules the nights of the French Riviera and ultimately steals the heart of the ultimate icon: Brigitte Bardot. Their passionate and impossible love affair, chronicled by tabloids around the world, becomes a fleeting moment of pure light—an eternal “now,” without past or future, lived as if the world would never change.

But summer, like every dream, must end. The revolution of ’68 reaches Saint-Tropez, reality reclaims its place, and Gigi is left alone, carrying with him the lingering scent of an illusion that will stay forever. As the train departs through the Pampas, the two young listeners are unsure whether to believe the story—but in the glow of the sunset, the doubt remains that it might all be true. Because perhaps, somewhere, summer never really ended.

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Directed by Luca Lucini e Ago Panini Produced by Minerva Pictures Written by Ago Panini e Federica Pontremoli