The Worst Film Ever

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Certain films gather a collection of excellent marks such a beautiful cinematography, acting chemistry, simple and beautiful portrait of relationships, and a certain knack to make the film utterly enjoyable, such is the case with "Shadows in The Sun".The true mark of an excellent film is how you feel when you finish viewing it, and how do you fell about seeing it again!, not what the critics think or write about it, so in effect each films has its true value to each individual in itself, a larger acceptance leads to greater reputation, nevertheless to me it's the whole perception to your personal experience. Incidentally, I thought the director did a great job of selecting the sequences, editing was excellent as well, the actors were well within their range, it was so smooth!.To me this film is a "10", don't miss it!

This movie was bad. The only plus side was some nice scenery. The acting was bad, the script was mush and my ability to relate to the characters was nonexistent. I would invite the world to track my down and kick my square in the balls if I am ever rich, living on winery, have great kids and am banging some Italian broad, to kick me square in the nuts if I claim to have problems. I hate movies where I can only dream of having problems like the main characters. Watching this film was like trying to drink a bottle of syrup. Except when you drink a bottle of syrup you feel better after you vomit. I would only suggest you watch this film if your looped out of your mind on Codeine and muscle relaxants and have no ability to change the film.

The movie is indeed well acted, and there is such a strong emotional theme going on and chemistry between the "old" (Keitel) and the "young" (Jackson) writers. The storyline goes well, the tempo is just fine and it would have been an excellent movie if not for the ridiculous details that had to be inserted just to add some misunderstood credibility for image of Italy in some other parts of the world. Like all the town folks were driving fiat Toplino and Jackson arrived on a BMW Z4 model 2004. Or that there were no young people or kids in the village and there was only one scene where Forlani is talking to anybody else than people tree times her age. Come on, this is Italy! If anybody is that hot as Forlani, Jackson will have very hard time trying to get her attention. But this was tolerable, until the last scene where we see Jackson depart on a steam train! I guess such kind of trains do exist somewhere in the world, but in Italy, home of the "Pendolino" trains that travel 200+ km/h such transportations is long forgotten. I would have given 8 if not for those silly scenes...

I am astonished that this woeful movie garnered an average score of 6.7 out of 10 on IMDb...! For a movie about writers and writing, the script is particularly predictable and turgid. I am not sure what was worse - the relentless inevitability of the completely obvious happy ending, or the clichéd romantic subplot.Keitel was clearly enjoying his holiday in Tuscany a little too much, with a performance that was at best, 'very relaxed'. Joshua Jackson, however, sounded like he was reading the script for the first time. And as for Claire Forlani ... "look, mum, I'm not just pretty, I'm ACTING!" If you're ever forced to watch this movie, turn the sound down. That way you can enjoy the movie's only asset - its Tuscan setting - without needing to hear Keitel's character, allegedly a grand master of literature, reciting prose so clumsy it would have earned a creative writing sophomore a 'D' on their term paper.