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| Directed by | Brandon Camp |
| Written by | Brandon Camp |
| Based on | Love & Gelato (novel) |
| Produced by | Viola Prestieri David Bertoni |
| Starring | Susanna Skaggs Tobia De Angelis Owen McDonnell |
Production company | GT Film |
| Distributed by | Netflix |
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| Language | English Italian |
Love & Gelato is a 2022 romantic comedy film [1] directed by Brandon Camp [2] and based on Jenna Evans Welch's 2016 young adult novel of the same title. [3]
17 year old American Lina Emerson travels to Rome in the summer before starting college shortly after her mom Janey's funeral, as she'd promised. Although socially awkward, she's to go alone, although her extroverted best friend Addie wanted to join her. Not only is Lina not interested in face-to-face interaction, but she's not on social media either.
Lina is to stay with her family friend Francesca, who is definitely an extrovert. They immediately go to her Irish cousin Howard Riley's prep school's graduation party so she can meet people her age. Lina briefly meets both Lorenzo and Alessandro.
Arriving at Francesca's, Lina is given her mother's diary from visiting Italy at the same age and left to get settled in. As she's trying to sleep off her jetlag, Alessandro calls. He's found her on socials, as Addie has created her profile, using photoshopped images. Ale invites her to an opera fundraiser that night.
Francesca gives Lina a makeover, dresses and coaches her. At the opera, Lina admits to Ale she has little life experience, which doesn't dissuade him. He gets her to chase him through off-limit areas of the building, until security catches them.
Ale's banker father insists he meet important contacts, so Lina leaves. Flustered, she bumps into Lorenzo, who is working with the event's catering, getting gelato on her. Recognising her from the graduation party, he offers her clean clothes and a lift.
On the way, Lorenzo takes Lina to get pastries from a secret bakery. After enjoying them, as he's leaving her at Francesca's, Ale shows up and invites her to go swimming the next day at noon.
In the morning, Howard shows Lina some of Janey's photos, some of which she recognizes, and gives her her camera. She spends a few hours snapping photos until she's due at Ale's. They take one of his dad's many cars out to a stream with a waterfall and he convinces her to jump into the pool below. Exhilerated, after he pledges exclusivity, Lina has her first makeout session.
Elated, Lina tells Addie about it. Spying on Ale's social media account, there is no mention of her, but a recent photo with someone else and not with his dad, as he'd told her. As they'd tagged their location, Lina confronts him.
The next day, Lina goes to the countryside with Fran and Howie for a meal at his colleague's, Lorenzo's moms'. As Lorenzo is about to be examined to enter culinary school, it's his practice run. Lina is helping to make the gelato when his possessive girlfriend interrupts by making out with him.
At the meal, Lina confronts Howie, believing he is her father. She's misinterpreted the diary, he'd offered to step up as the father because he was in love with her not because he was him. Matteo Fossi her photography teacher is the one.
Finding Fossi's studio in Florence, Lina grabs the train and coincides with Lorenzo. They encourage each other, agreeing to return to Rome together. At the studio, she introduces herself as Fossi's daughter, but is told he's out. Lina barges into his office only for him to ignore her. She leaves, taking an enlargement of her mother.
Lina and Lorenzo comiserate their unsuccessful missions and kiss, although she tells him it was a mistake once back in Rome, due to the timing. As she announces she's returning to the US early, Fran calls Addie, their emergency plan. Arriving quickly, she insists they stay to have fun. Addie gets them an invite to Ale's graduation party. There, Lina realises Ale will always follow his family's wishes and discovers Lorenzo is heading to Paris.
Addie and Lina hurry to the station, where she wishes him luck and says the kiss wasn't a mistake. Meeting with Howie, she gives him her mother's love lock she found. As she's deferring college for a year he asks if can act as her adoptive dad.
One year later, Lina finds Lorenzo in Rome in front of the secret pastry shop. He reveals he'll be taking over, as the woman who ran it retired. Lorenzo invites Lina to his grandmother's in the countryside, so they go on her Vespa.
Love & Gelato was written and directed by Brandon Camp. [6] It was filmed in Italy [7] and produced by Viola Prestieri, David Bertoni, and GT Film. [8] The film is based on the 2016 young adult novel [9] Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch. [10]
The film was announced on May 25, 2022 [11] and released for streaming globally [12] on Netflix on June 22 of the same year. [13]
The film has received mostly negative reviews from critics, holding a score of 22% on Rotten Tomatoes. [14] In particular, reviews criticized its reliance on cliches [4] and the shallowness of its writing. [6] [15] The film has also received criticism online from readers of the novel on which it is based. [16]
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