After reflecting on their lives, they are much refreshed. These four women who were suffering from various kinds of unhappiness find refuge to lick their crooked feathers at an Italian island. At that conservative time, married housewives usually travelled overseas with their husbands.

Magic Italy, who can resist its charm? Rational and cool-headed English people always find the southern Mediterranean countries a place to channel their suppressed feeling and emotion, and Italy of course is one of the choices. Though I missed the show, some ten years later I borrowed it from British Council again, now the library of BC has been closed down. The movie has been on air in town for a brief period, about ten days in a very small cinema at sleazy area. When life is not leading towards anywhere promising, stop, go somewhere else, relax, restore and restart. This little film is a diamond of highest quality. Charming, enchanting, and heartwarming, 'Enchanted April' is one of the best movies ever made and my eternal love. I had promised to myself then that no matter what, I would pull myself out of misery and self-pity and I would appreciate every minute of life - with its joy and its sadness.I promised myself that I would go to Italy and later that year I did and I was not alone. It helped me to regain my optimism and hope that anything could be changed and anything is possible. I watched it during the difficult times when I was lost, unhappy and very lonely, when I had to deal with the sad and tragic events and to come to terms with some unflattering truth about myself. This is the movie that actually affected my life. Lovely and sunny, tender and peaceful, kind and magical, it is like a ray of sun on your face during springtime when you want to close your eyes and smile and stop this moment of serene happiness and cherish it forever. It is the correct description but it will not prepare you for the fact that 'Enchanted April' - an ultimate 'feel good' movie is perfection of its genre.

'My child, my sister, dream How sweet all things would seem Were we in that kind land to live together, And there love slow and long, There love and die among Those scenes that image you, that sumptuous weather.' Charles Baudelaire Based on the novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim, 'Enachanted April' can be described in one sentence it takes place in the early 1920s when four London women, four strangers decide to rent a castle in Italy for the month of April.

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