Il Postino

Lucinda gave us a loan on the DVD for Il Postino last December or was it January? I'm now a bit vague on detail, but it was a lovely story, beautifully shot. The story of a young man on a small island in Italy (or was it Greece?). He gets a job as a postman and his only customer is a South American communist and poet (played by Philippe Noiret) living in exile there with his wife. The postman wants to learn poetry so he can seduce the girl of his dreams. Well, it works and they get married. But I won't tell you more. It's a slow-paced story, of a simple world that becomes more complicated as the years go by.