Un magical and dramatic summerthe one experienced by a group of friends in 1990, during the Football World Cup in Italy. The series A summer ago by Davide Marengo and Marta Savina (starting tonight on Sky and streaming on Now) with Linen Pillow, Filippo Scotti (It was the hand of God) And Claudia Pandolfi leads right into that colorful year, during a summer made of friendship, of firsts you kiss and of ache for the loss of a friend.
The series mixes the 90s nostalgiaThe crime (the body of a girl who disappeared in 1990 was found thirty years later), two generations in comparison (adolescents and adults), the teen drama and the time travel. At the center there is above all one boy from the group (now an adult with a family), heliumwhich suddenly yes finds himself reliving that summer at the seaside that he had removed.
A summer ago: the plot of the first episode
Helium (Linen Pillow) is a lawyer, has a wife and a daughter. In the incipit of the series he remembers his most beautiful summerthat of 1990that of World Cup by Totò Schillaci, of the songs lived at full throttle with friends Carlo, Costanza, Lauretta and Adriano. And then there was her, Arianna (Antonia Fotaras), for which Elio had lost his mind. During that carefree summer, however, something unexpected and dramatic happens: Arianna disappears.
His body was found thirty years laterat the bottom of a lake, a few km from the campsite The wavewhere the friends had spent the summer of Italy 90. From that moment on their lives have no longer intersected. Elio was the prime suspect at the time and three decades later he continues to be so. The police investigate.
In the meantime, something equally incredible happens: Elio after a car accident is found in his adolescent body (Filippo Scotti) just during that summer. What happened? Will he be able to manipulate the past to save Arianna? She will ask her friend at the time Costanza for help (Claudia Pandolfi).
A summer agobetween crime, lightness and time travel
Since the first episode A summer ago stimulates the binge watching. The time travels of helium they are a gimmick for rewind the tape of memories or are some sort of stargate that allows him to manipulate the past? And then there is the curiosity of detective stories. What happened to Arianna?
The series is nostalgic and light, with the right mix of popular actors and new talents from cinema and TV, addresses the themes of coming of age he was born in crime, keeping the viewer on their toes.
We know that Elio was in love with Ariannathat she was going through a complicated moment in life and that she had a violent boyfriend, Filippo. When the girl is found in a car at the bottom of a lake with a wedding ring on her finger and with the cassette recorded by Elio in the tape player of Panda, Elio is the first suspect. On the other hand, Arianna’s mother had always been convinced that it was he who had made her daughter disappear.
Behind that death, however, there is much more, perhaps there girl had gotten into a bad situation. The discovery of the body will further disrupt Elio’s lifeand this time also that of his family.
The young protagonists of “Un’estate fa”. (Sky)
Lino Guanciale and nostalgia
«They told me about the series several years ago and I was immediately struck by the subject – he has declared Linen Pillow – I wanted to be there. I was interested in the idea of shuffling the cards: the future of the production system lies in experimentation and breaking new ground.”
In 1990 the actor of Commissioner Ricciardi he was eleven years old. «I experienced the start of middle school with great anguish and I hoped for Italy to win the championship World Cup. The elimination in the semi-final was mine first big wound. Then came the loss of grampa who had the same name as me. I have a dangerous relationship with nostalgia – he says – I have to handle it with caution because I risk being too indulgent.”
The soundtrack of A summer ago: from Take on Me by a-ha Depeche Mode
The series takes us on a full dive into the 90s with the Schillaci World Cup and Maradonawith the clothes of the time, the cassette tapes, the inevitable ice lolly calippo and the music. The soundtrack, curated by Marco De Angelis and Valerio Errico, ranges from Take on Me of the a-ha a A car needs to be moved Of Enzo Salvifrom Enjoy the Silence of the Depeche Mode to A summer agothe famous song by Franco Califano in the historical version of Mina and for the occasion revisited by Francesca Michielin (feat. Altarboy).
Among the other unforgettable songs included in the series, we find The Power of Love of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Desperate love Of Nada, Ride on Time of Black Box, The Fall of Rhye and the iconic Bette Davis Eyes And Shout by Kim Carnes and the Tears for Fears. It couldn’t be missed An Italian summer by Edoardo Bennato e Gianna Nannini, soundtrack by Italy 90.
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