Netflix latest destination romance “La Dolce Villa” largely owns a beautiful old Italian city called Montezara, and it is really beautiful. Unfortunately, it is not a real place either. So where actually shot this movie?
Now that flows on Netflix, the film centers on Eric Field (Scott Foley), a father rushing to Italy after his daughter Olivia (Maia Reficco) informs him that she will be To buy a home for a euro And move there, as part of an attempt to bring in new residents.
While he is there, he not only comes closer to his daughter, but also finds love, as well as his old passion for cooking. Because that’s exactly what Italy does for people.
And for the record, yes, “La Dolce Villa” was actually filmed in Italy. Montezara is just a fake city (although it is the name of a real vineyard, spelled as Monte Zara). According to Directo Mark Waters, the city they mainly shot in San Quirico d’Orcia.
At the same time, the interior of the villa was built at Cinecittá Studios in Rome, while the exterior was shot in eastern Lazio, in a place called Torino del Gelsi.
For water, it was important to get Italy’s beauty without making it a movie that just met every city it could.
“It was a story that put a lid on getting too ridiculous, as far as just making it a scenic travel log, in the sense that it is meant to be a really small town that does not do well financially,” he explained to Thewrap. “And so, when you walk around Italy and you look at these amazing places, you are in Montepulciano, you are in Orvieto, you are like,” These places are incredible, but they are all a little too grand, do you know? “
The director added that the note he often gave his place speed was that the cities they hit were “too pleasant.”
“There is even one thing too, where I felt that some of the cities have already been similar to art decorated, let’s put it,” he recalled. “Almost by Disney, to make it look” yes, is the perfect little Italian city. “Still, it felt curated to look like that. And so there is something with the places we thought I liked. They seemed a little frame hackle.”
Waters admitted that he and his team used their own movie magic to review certain elements of San Quirico d’Orcia.
“It was a bit like,” Yes, it’s not glamorous, but it looked perfect, “Do you know? We made it look a little nicer, we changed some stores, and we added some awnings and put a fountain on The main square, “he admitted.” But we still wanted to be peeled in the nice way, where it felt like it is a small Italian municipality. “
“La Dolce Villa” is now flowing on Netflix.