And While We Were Here (2012) on Netflix
In Italy for her husband Leonard's viola engagement, Jane writes a memoir while their marriage strains. On Ischia she meets Caleb, a nineteen-year-old who shows her a carefree day.
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Plot summary
Jane, a writer, and her husband Leonard, a violist, arrive in Naples, where he has been hired to teach and perform. Their marriage is strained, and Leonard keeps to his work. In their hotel room Jane works on a memoir about her grandmother in the world wars, then takes the ferry to the island of Ischia to escape the isolation. There she meets Caleb, an outgoing nineteen-year-old, and the two spend an afternoon together and share dinner. He asks for her phone number; she refuses and returns by ferry. At lunch with Leonard the next day, Caleb appears at their table, and Leonard has the check brought. Caleb writes his address on Jane's hand before he leaves.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about And While We Were Here (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Kat Coiro wrote the script while using Google Earth to scout interesting locations, then she and her crew would turn up on the island of Ischia and film in those places illegally, without asking for permission.
- The film was shot in color, but director Kat Coiro and her cinematographer wanted it shown in black and white; it had a successful festival run that way, and Coiro only released it in color so as not to limit her potential audience.
- Coiro chose the island of Ischia as the film's shooting location because one of her producers owned a home there where they could film parts of the movie.
