The salutary effect on Brits of the sunny Continent, with its heart-opening, upper-lip-loosening powers, has fueled a well-populated movie subgenre.
Using the change of scenery to explore a father-son relationship, the Tuscany-set Made in Italy arrives as a less-than-memorable entry, peppering predictable dashes of romance and real estate into a neatly defined recipe.
In his debut outing as a feature filmmaker, actor James D'Arcy (Hitchcock, Dunkirk) doesn't hide his admiration for the setting's picture-postcard light and small-village conviviality.
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