''Time for Loving'' (released in Italy as ''Sapore di mare'') is a 1983

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

romantic comedy film Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Romantic comedy e ...

directed by

Carlo Vanzina Carlo Vanzina (13 March 1951 – 8 July 2018) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. Vanzina was born in Rome, the son of Maria Teresa Nati and film director Stefano Vanzina and brother of Enrico Vanzina. Many of his project ...

. It obtained a great commercial success and launched a short-living subgenre of revival-nostalgic comedy films. It also generated a sequel, ''

Sapore di mare 2 - Un anno dopo ''Sapore di mare 2 - Un anno dopo'' is a 1983 Italian teen romantic comedy film directed by Bruno Cortini and written by Bruno Cortini, Cesare Frugoni and Carlo Vanzina. starring Gianni Ansaldi, Angelo Cannavacciuolo, and Massimo Ciavarro. It is ...

''. For her performance in this film

Virna Lisi Virna Lisa Pieralisi (; 8 November 1936 – 18 December 2014), known as just Virna Lisi, was an Italian actress. Her international film appearances included ''How to Murder Your Wife'' (1965), ''Not with My Wife, You Don't!'' (1966), ''The Secre ...

won a

David di Donatello The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David (Donatello, bronze), David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (the Academy of Italian Cin ...

for Best Supporting Actress and a

Silver Ribbon The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in ...

in the same category.

Plot summary

The film is set in the Sixties, in the Tuscan beach of

Forte dei Marmi Forte dei Marmi () is an Italian sea town and ''comune'' located in the province of Lucca, in northern Tuscany, overlooking the Ligurian Sea. Tourism is the principal activity of Forte dei Marmi's citizens. The population of the town, amounting to ...

. 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

Jerry Calà Calogero Alessandro Augusto Calà, known by his stage name Jerry Calà (born 28 June 1951), is an Italian actor, filmmaker, comedian and singer who has written, directed, and acted in multiple film and television projects. He is considered one o ...

: Luca *

Christian De Sica Christian De Sica (; born 5 January 1951) is an Italian actor, comedian, television presenter, and filmmaker. Life De Sica was born in Rome, the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader. His first ...

: Felicino *

Isabella Ferrari Isabella Fogliazza (born 31 March 1964), better known by her stage name of Isabella Ferrari, is an Italian television, stage and film actress. She is best known for her role as Commissioner Giovanna Scalise, the main character in the police dram ...

: Selvaggia *

Marina Suma Marina Suma (born 14 November 1959) is an Italian actress. Life and career Born in Naples, Suma started her career as a glamour model, and made her film debut in Salvatore Piscicelli's '' Le occasioni di Rosa''. For her performance in this fi ...

: Marina *

: Adriana * Karina Huff: Susan *

Angelo Cannavacciuolo Angelo Cannavacciuolo (born July 17, 1956 in Naples) is an Italian writer and film director. Cannavacciuolo studied at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the Near East at the University of Naples "L'Orientale", Istituto Orientale in Naples. ...

: Paolo *

Gianni Ansaldi Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a surname), a short form of the Italian Giovanni and a cognate of John meaning God is gracious. Gianni is the most common diminutive of Giovanni in Italian. People with this given name * Gianni Agnelli (192 ...

: Gianni *

Giorgia Fiorio Giorgia Fiorio (born 23 July 1967 in Turin) is a photographer, artist, and essayist from Turin, Italy. As a teenager, she was a pop singer, and performed at the San Remo Festival. At age twenty, she decided she wanted to be a photographer. She a ...

: Giorgia

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* 1983 comedy films 1983 films Films directed by Carlo Vanzina Films set in 1964 Films set in Tuscany Italian comedy films 1980s Italian-language films 1980s Italian films Italian-language comedy films {{1980s-Italy-comedy-film-stub

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