Love Island tells the story of a pregnant French woman who lives in Sarajevo with her Bosnian husband and their daughter. They go for a vacation at a Croatian island, where things get complicated when they all become attracted to a beautiful woman.
L'été sera chaud, Островът на любовта, 러브 아일랜드, 爱之岛
Switzerland
Bosnia and Herzegovina
South Korea18
Bosnia and Herzegovina
South Korea
Switzerland
Reviewed for the Chicago Reader in 2016:
In this painfully unfunny sex farce (2014), a Bosnian man (Ermin Bravo) and his pregnant French bride (Ariane Labed) flirt with infidelity while vacationing at a cheesy "all-inclusive" resort on a Croatian island. The twist is that the husband doesn't realize the Romanian beauty he desires (Ada Condeescu) is actually his wife's lover, though the ensuing bisexual triangle is just an excuse for a series of lame gags, many revolving around Bravo's ill-fitting Speedo. Director Jasmila Žbanić attempts a tone of lighthearted fun—hypersaturated colors, karaoke renditions of 80s pop songs, surreal underwater interludes depicting Labed and Condeescu as mermaids—but it all feels forced and cloying. Aging spaghetti-western icon Franco Nero (who served as executive producer) pops up as a randy Italian tourist and Greek-chorus figure. Žbanić cowrote the screenplay with Chicago-based novelist Aleksandar Hemon
