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A Year in London review – fashion student hits it off with her professor in frothy lesbian romcom
An Italian on an exchange to the glamorous UK capital gets involved with a sophisticated older woman in a tale of soap opera silliness A year is about how long this very quaint film feels, although there are moments when the soap opera silliness, the photo-love yearning and the wooden Google-translate line readings are reasonably entertaining. Olivia (Nina Pons) is a young fashion student from southern Italy who gets the chance of a lifetime to spend a year in our glamorous capital at the “London Academy of Couture” in South Kensington. Saucer-eyed Olivia apparently can’t get over the sight of two men kissing. She is almost-engaged to a wealthy young home town boy called Paolo (Matteo Bassi), though it will soon be revealed that the cut of Paolo’s jib is not all that it might be. Continue reading...
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An Italian on an exchange to the glamorous UK capital gets involved with a sophisticated older woman in a tale of soap opera silliness A year is about how long this very quaint film feels, although there are moments when the soap opera silliness, the photo-love yearning and the wooden Google-translate line readings are reasonably entertaining. Olivia (Nina Pons) is a young fashion student from southern Italy who gets the chance of a lifetime to spend a year in our glamorous capital at the “London Academy of Couture” in South Kensington. Saucer-eyed Olivia apparently can’t get over the sight of two men kissing. She is almost-engaged to a wealthy young home town boy called Paolo (Matteo Bassi), though it will soon be revealed that the cut of Paolo’s jib is not all that it might be. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s linked item, A Year in London review – fashion student hits it off with her professor in frothy lesbian romcom, An Italian on an exchange to the glamorous UK capital gets involved with a sophisticated older woman in a tale of soap opera silliness A year is about how long this very quaint film feels, although there are moments when the soap opera silliness, the photo-love yearning and the wooden Google-translate line readings are reasonably entertaining. Olivia (Nina Pons) is a young fashion student from southern Italy who gets the chance of a lifetime to spend a year in our glamorous capital at the “London Academy of Couture” in South Kensington. Saucer-eyed Olivia apparently can’t get over the sight of two men kissing. She is almost-engaged to a wealthy young home town boy called Paolo (Matteo Bassi), though it will soon be revealed that the cut of Paolo’s jib is not all that it might be. Continue reading…
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