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Genova (released in the US as A Summer in Genoa) is a 2008 drama film co-written and directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, and Hope Davis. It was filmed in the titular city of Genoa (Genova in Italian) during the summer of 2007. It premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival [1] and won the ...
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Rated: 4/5 • May 19, 2010. Joe is a widowed teacher bereft at the death of his wife Marianne in an accident caused by their youngest daughter Mary. Offered a teaching job in Italy, he takes Mary ...
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Genova is a 2008 drama film co-written and directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, and Hope Davis. It was filmed in the titular city of Genoa during the summer of 2007. It premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and won the best director's award in the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
On an icy road near Chicago, Marianne dies in a crash, leaving Joe and their daughters, 16-year-old Kelly and 9-year-old Mary. That summer, a friend from Joe's graduate-student days 20 years before, arranges a teaching job for him in Genoa. When they arrive in June, Joe starts teaching and the girls have the summer before school starts: Kelly ...
Mary distracts her mother for a moment resulting in an accident in which the mother dies. The grieving husband, Joe, a university professor, decides to leave Chicago behind in favor of a year in Genoa, where his friend, Barbara, is teaching. The change of scenery proves to be a momentary distraction for the family.
Synopsis. A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genova changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to ...
The premise of Michael Winterbottom's film "A Summer In Genoa" is how a family deals with grief. Set in the Italian city and featuring Colin Firth and Catherine Keener, this unfortunately is a bit of a damp squib. When Firth's wife is killed in a car accident that also involved their two daughters, the family's lives are changed forever.
