pretentious and grotesquely bourgeois, over-acted, miscast

Rating: 6/10 (12 August 2018)

The setting: the italian countryside
the characters: ridiculously enthusiastic professors, grad students, and a talented, bold adolescent who transcribes schoenberg and reads voraciously (+ various caricatures of italians)
the dialogue: quotes from seventeenth century french drama, analysis of heraclitus and hegel, which fall entirely too short to add anything, but are thrown there to display how smart these people are
how much more pretentious and grotesquely bourgeois can you get?
to make things worst, the guy who is supposed to be the exotic american everyone falls for has the charisma of a paper bag, and is a terrible actor
the actor who plays the teenage character is the anchor, but the ship is too heavy for him alone to save it