My Name Is Tanino

My Name Is Tanino

2003 · 109 min · IT · 6.2 (205 votes)
Dir. Paolo Virzì · Starring Corrado Fortuna, Rachel McAdams, Jessica De Marco, Frank Crudele, Barry Flatman, Lori Hallier · Music Carlo Virzì
Comedy

During a sun-soaked Sicilian summer, aimless filmmaking undergrad and back-seat radical Tanino has a fling with Sally, a dreamy American tourist from an upper background. When summer ends, Sally flies back home, without ever reaching out. Clueless, a smitten Tanino decides to pay her a surprise visit under the pretense of returning a camera she left behind. But when he gets there, he quickly realizes the reality of America—and his relationship with Sally's—is far from the idealized version his small-town boy imagination conjured.

VIBE

A sun-drenched, coming-of-age romance set against a Sicilian summer. It's a tender, wistful journey of first love and youthful dreams colliding with the harsh realities of the world. Expect charming awkwardness and a touch of bittersweet longing.

sweettenderwistfulcharmingoptimisticsteadyEuropean arthousecoming-of-age dramaromantic comedyfirst lovecultural clashcoming-of-agedreams vs. reality