Film: La Dolce Villa
Cast: Scott Foley, Violante Placido, Maia Reficco, Giuseppe Futia,
Simone Luglio, Tommaso Basili, Nunzia Schiano, Luisa De Santis
Director: Mark Waters
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 99 min.

The new Netflix streamer rom-com “La Dolce Villa” is set in rural Italy, and centers on fifty-something widower Eric (Scott Foley), who is back in Italy to prevent his twenty-something daughter Liv (Maia Reficco who looks like a young Salma Hayek), who is going to use her inheritance to buy a villa. There’s this new economic plan in which small towns sell abandoned heritage villas “as is” for one Euro as a way of attracting new blood to their communities - that’s how she can afford it even though her inheritance is not sizable enough.

Once he arrives in the village of Montezara, he meets the town’s Mayor, Francesca (Violante Placido), and together they hatch a plan to help his daughter turn her villa into a cooking school that might be an even greater economic boost for the town. But of course there are multiple complications in the offing.