Ginger and Cinnamon

I lived in Italy for many years & spent summers vacationing on the island of Ios in Greece & this brought me all back! It also captured the nature of Italians, especially when they travel, really really well. I would recommend for those who want to be entertained & see how the europeans really vacation. Filled with laughter, love & inspiration.

I haven't seen this movie yet but I have seen the scene on the bus ,and it makes me want to see it,The gorgeous Giampaolo Morreli and the equally gorgeous Stefania Montorsi lip synch to a Mina song, Taratata(Fumo Blu).I love Mina,if you don't know who she is you should check her out.start with Youtube.The 2 stars do a flawless job of lip synching and it's a damn cute scene.So I will order this movie now.

A funny and touching movie about a middle aged aunt suffering the agony of a recent break up tricked by her young teen neice into going to Greece for a vacation where the teen hopes to experience her first sexual relationship. The interaction between the two generations of women is honest, funny and touching. References to seventies music and television are hilarious and familiar. The movie was full of revelation about personalities, self deception, love and growth. Light hearted, fun and beautifully filmed. A movie full of laugh out loud moments and tenderness.

Wonderful fun movie

Meggy, a silly Italian 14-year-old intent on losing her virginity, takes a trip to a Greek island -- "the Island of Love" -- with her 30-year-old aunt, Stephania, who has just broken off an eight-year relationship. The island seems to be populated solely by young people intent on partying, drinking, sun-bathing, getting high and making love. Various trivial complications ensue, the ex-boyfriend shows up and proves to be just as moody and immature as everyone else -- and there is also a weird Bollywood interlude where the principals lip-sync and dance to a song hailing the positive attributes of smoking. The main attraction here is Meggy's strange misconceptions of what it means to be an adult -- but all the characters are terminally childish, shallow and uninteresting. Sorry, can't really recommend this much. It's pretty harmless like eating cotton candy, but not very nutritious.

Ginger and Cinnamon, Dillo con Parole Mie (`Say it in my words') in its Italian version, is entertaining in its dialogue and acting. The storyline is a little drab and predictable if you catch on to what has happened early on, somethat that I admit I failed to understand the first time I watched it. The film is set on the Greek Island of Ios, which is depicted in the same light as MTV's Cancun spring break minus the wet t-shirt contests. Teens and twenty-somethings wander around aimlessly, drink beer for breakfast and have lots of alfresco sex. The movie revolves around the break-up of Stefania and Andrea and the mission-like will of Stefania's niece to lose her virginity at age 14. The sex scenes are mild and show no human flesh beyond what can be seen publicly at any beach. One unique addition to the film is a series of "reality freezes" in which the director shows groups of actual youth on holiday on the Greek islands. They identify themselves by first name and host city and country. The portrayal of the British kids is all too accurate, and while the pictures often show the youth passed out at 10 AM near a bottle of booze, there is something greater about the international unity that exists on the islands. Even if Brazil and the US have sour diplomatic relations, their youth are still partying hard and together in the Isles of Love. I recommend this film for a college-level Italian language course. The language is modern and the content entertaining, even profound on some levels. There is a lot of sexual content, however, though nothing to which a typical college student is already inured. Note on language: Andrea, or `Anea,' uses the word `mo' a couple of times in the film. `Mo' means `adesso' (in modern Italian) or `now' (in English) and is used in a number of Southern dialects. A brief description in Italian from Yahoo! Cinema Italia: "Che estate terribile quella che si prospetta per Stefania e Megghy, rispettivamente zia e nipote. Stefania, trentenne, è stata appena lasciata dal suo compagno; la sedicenne Megghy, invece, ha appena perso l'occasione per trascorrere le vacanze con i suoi amici. Entrambe sole, decidono di partire per qualche giorno di relax in Grecia. Ma il destino decide di giocare un brutto tiro: sull'isola di Ios, infatti, Stefania incontra il suo ex Andrea mentre Megghy ritrova i suoi amici."

GREAT

Does anyone know if this version of the movie is shorter than the original italian movie? it says here 82 minutes but the italian dvd, dillo con parole mie, says over 100 minutes.