"Der Sommer des glücklichen Narren" tells the story of a more or less succesful author of love stories, who just got divorced from his first wife when a beautiful woman strands in his house. While they quickly fall in love, his newly-married ex-wife and the daughter of his publisher, who has a crush on him, threaten to set their luck as a couple on risk.
The film is pretty much your basic tv love story. It mixes together some clichées, some rivalry between very different characters, a clear set of good and bad characters and the most family-friendly form of arousal. Some points don't really make sense (a broke author lives on a farm with several cows and horses..) but don't disturb the plot all too much. When the same conflict is rising again for the third time, it can become a bit redundant, but at least you can be sure to see a happy end.
All in all it doesn't hurt nobody and indeed you develop a sympathy for some of the characters, but it is clearly more a relaxing evening in front of the tv than it is great cinema by any means.
The film is pretty much your basic tv love story. It mixes together some clichées, some rivalry between very different characters, a clear set of good and bad characters and the most family-friendly form of arousal. Some points don't really make sense (a broke author lives on a farm with several cows and horses..) but don't disturb the plot all too much. When the same conflict is rising again for the third time, it can become a bit redundant, but at least you can be sure to see a happy end.
All in all it doesn't hurt nobody and indeed you develop a sympathy for some of the characters, but it is clearly more a relaxing evening in front of the tv than it is great cinema by any means.
