Five Best Vespa in Films (1)

There are hundreds’ of movies that feature the Vespa, Swide sifts through them all however to bring you the best five. One and two:

Respiro

On the idyllic setting of Lampedusa Respiro is about a free-spirited mother of three who is accused of madness by the islands people who are fed up with her antics. Grazia play by Valeria Golino, behaves erratically, one minute she is laughing and swimming half naked in the sea, the next she is curled in ball on her bed. Her family she is a manic depressive and discuss having her sent to a mental facility in the North of Italy. When she learns of their plan she goes into hiding, forcing her husband and the town’s people to reassess.

Quadrophenia

Loosely based on the Who’s rock opera of the same name the film centres events building up to and around the Mods versus Rockers clashes on Brighton beach in 1965. Jimmy Cooper is a disillusioned working class boy with a taste for amphetamine and his Lambretta scooter, who finds an outlet for his teenage angst with a gang of British Mods, and through their clashes with rival gang the Rockers he grows up quickly learning about loyalty, truth, love and betrayal. Sting stars as the mod leader ‘Ace Face’.