Film of the week- Walking On Sunshine

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TITLE:

Walking On Sunshine

YEAR OF PROD:

2014

TYPE:

FILM

TELEVISION

DOC.

MUSIC

ADVERT

MUSIC VID.

OTHER:

DIRECTOR

Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini

PRODUCER

Caroline Levy, Allan Niblo and James Richardson

WRITER

Joshua St Johnston

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Vertigo Films and IM Global

KEY CAST /ARTIST

Greg Wise: Doug. Hannah Arterton: Taylor. Annabel Scholey: Maddie. Giulio Berruti: Raf. Leona Lewis: Elena, Katy Brand: Lil.

KEY CREW

Music: Anne Dudley. Cinematography: Philipp Blaubach. Editing: Robin Sales.

GENRE

Musical, romance

BUDGET

N/A

BOX OFFICE

$4,558,820

THEMES

Love, conflict, hatred, jealously, loss, lust, ‘love triangle’, manipulation, betrayal

AWARDS

N/A

NARRATIVE: The IMDb description: “Set to the music of popular hit songs from the 1980s. A beautiful coastal village, present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie is preparing to marry gorgeous Italian Raf, and has invited her sister Taylor to the wedding. Unbeknownst to Maddie, however, Raf is Taylor's ex-holiday flame, and the love of her life...” My opinion on the film: So this was your typical romance film. From near to the beginning, I could practically predict exactly what was going to happen: there was an un-going conflict to which was then resolved to end in the ‘perfect’ “happy ever after” ending. Therefore, in terms of narrative, I do not believe it was very strong and there was no originality about it that made the film stand out to be in a particular way. However saying this, the 80’s music was an excellent touch and it was performed really well by the actors. This made the film more entertaining to watch and it was great to sing along to etc so I did have a good time watching it. I have not seen many musicals but I do not think “Walking On Sunshine” reflects how good some of them may be, so partly a let-down but also an enjoyable and relaxed film. 7/10

KEY SCENES:            ·          All the ‘musical scenes’ such as: White Wedding, Venus, How Will I Know, The Power of Love.            ·          The Tomato Festival            ·          When Taylor finds out that Raf is engaged to Maddy            ·          Dinner scene with Maddy and Doug            ·          Maddy tells Raf she does not want to marry him during their wedding            ·          Final scene            ·          Taylor’s friend goes to talk to her at the airport and convince her to go to the wedding

COMPARABLES: Every stereotypical romance film. Musicals such as Mamma Mia.

PROGRESSION OF KEY CONTRIBUTORS: The directors have not directed anything since, but previously they have worked together on: StreetDance 3D (2010), StreetDance 2 (2012) and What If- short (2012). Greg Wise has progressed to act in Blackwood (2014), Effie Gray (2014) and The Outcast- TV Mini Series (2015). Hannah Arterton progressed to act in: Hide and Seek (2014), Otherwise Engaged- short (2015), Doc Martin- TV Series (2015) and Burn Burn Burn (2015)

ANY OTHER BUSINESS? “There were different reports in 2012 indicating that Kylie Minogue, Gemma Arterton and Samantha Barks were in talks for this film but none of them ultimately appeared. A report by The Wrap also indicated that the film would be about a mother and daughter who fall for the same man, but the film was ultimately about two sisters.”