JAMES MAY – OUR AGENT IN ITALY
Genre: comedy, documentary
Direction: Bill Bailey and Tom Whitter. With James May, Paolo Damiano, Guia Scognamiglio. On Prime Video.
A moment of the docu-series “James May – our agent in Italy”, on Prime Video
“Could the ‘dolce vita’ be within the reach of a scruffy Englishman?” From this curious question it starts James May-Our agent in Italya docu-series in six episodes.
After a first season set in Japan, the second act of this TV traveler’s trip around the world features Italy.a sign of our country’s still very strong focus on foreign audiovisual productions and tourist attraction processes.
From Sicily to the Amalfi Coast, from the Alps to Tuscany, from Rome to VeniceJames May’s journey along the boot is a pleasant fresco of the well-known and lesser-known beauties of our country.
The story deliberately plays and insists on classic stereotypes (“Football, fashion and every possible carbohydrate”), but with the intent to overcome them, to show the viewer what lies behind this surface imagery.
The result is a journey with comedy streaks, made up of grotesque adventures and breathtaking sceneryof an awareness that Italy is not just “gesticulating” and “mafia and citrus”, but a crossroads of cultures, traditions and folklore unique in the world.
For those who love travel documentaries and discover Italy through the eyes of “others”.
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