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Kim Bodnia

Diana Cavallioti

Jamie Sives

Ana Ularu

Anca Damian

Grant Keir

A Very Unsettled Summer

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Drama: Psychological

27/09/2014

BBC Two - A Very Unsettled Summer

A journalist is lured into a fictional game which threatens to turn his life upside down.

Psychological drama about a journalist lured into a fictional game which threatens to turn his life upside down, set against the backdrop of an intense Bucharest summer.

The intense heat and gathering storms of summer in Bucharest are the background to this unsettling, contemporary urban story. Daniel (Jamie Sives), a journalist, receives a story from his ex-girlfriend Maria (Ana Ularu), in which her fictional self offers to play the prostitute and have sex with him one last time, for money.

Lured into Maria's game, Daniel becomes her lover once again, but hides this from Irina (Diana Cavallioti), who is the real love of his life. His ensnarement is recounted in a screenplay by Alex (Kim Bodnia), a writer and confidante to both Daniel and Maria.

As the pressure of living two lives mounts, Daniel begins to psychologically unravel. He convinces himself that if he can only author a happy ending to the screenplay, he can regain control of his life. But life is not a story... 

A Very Unsettled Summer is a wry, comic, seductive and, as the title suggests, unsettling film about the power of storytelling, about the way 'educated Europeans' live, love and lie to each other and the consequences of blurring the fine line that separates fiction from real life.

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