| Time for Loving | |
| Director: | Carlo Vanzina |
| Starring: | Jerry Calà Christian De Sica |
| Music: | Edoardo Vianello Mariano Perrella |
| Cinematography: | Beppe Maccari |
| Editing: | Raimondo Crociani |
| Runtime: | 92 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
Time for Loving (released in Italy as Sapore di mare) is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Vanzina. It obtained a great commercial success and launched a short-living subgenre of revival-nostalgic comedy films.[1] [2] It also generated a sequel, Sapore di mare 2 - Un anno dopo.[3] 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.[4]
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.