Time for Loving

{{distinguish|A Time for Loving|Time for Living|Time for Lovers|Time to Love (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Time for Loving

| image = Sapore di mare.jpg

| caption = Italian theatrical release poster by Renato Casaro

| director = Carlo Vanzina

| writer = Enrico Vanzina
Carlo Vanzina

| starring = {{plainlist|

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| music = Edoardo Vianello
Mariano Perrella

| cinematography = Beppe Maccari

| editing = Raimondo Crociani

| producer =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1983}}

| runtime = 92 minutes

| country = Italy

| language = Italian

| budget =

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Time for Loving (released in Italy as Sapore di mare) is a 1983 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Carlo Vanzina. It obtained a great commercial success and launched a short-living subgenre of revival-nostalgic comedy films.{{cite book |last=Emiliano Morreale |title=L'invenzione della nostalgia: il vintage nel cinema italiano e dintorni |publisher=Donzelli Editore |date=2009}}{{cite book |last=Paola Mingoni |title=Cinema da ridere in 201 film |publisher=Giunti Editore}} It also generated a sequel, Sapore di mare 2 - Un anno dopo.{{cite book |author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano |publisher=Gremese Editore |date=1991}} For her performance in this film Virna Lisi won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress and a Silver Ribbon in the same category.{{cite book |last=Enrico Lancia |title=I premi del cinema |publisher=Gremese Editore |date=1998}}

Plot summary

The film is set in the Sixties, in the Tuscan beach of Forte dei Marmi. A group of young friends spends their holidays at the sea. One of them has a girlfriend, but she loves another man, while his brother is with a beautiful American girl, but he prefers another woman. Finally, a shy student falls in love with an older woman. The end of the movie is a fast-forward in which the same friends gather together after twenty years; however, they are sad because everything is different in their life.

Cast

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