Easygoing Picks for a Sunday Morning
For Sunday mornings when no alarm rings and breakfast stretches on and on. You'll find songs that say “good morning,” a Vespa ride through Rome, movies that make you hungry, a childhood on Corfu, a year in Provence, and boaters having lunch on the Seine. Brew the tea and pull a chair into the sun.
Films
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1 Film
Roman Holiday
A graceful love story in which a princess explores Rome on a Vespa and savors freedom.
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2 Film
Amélie
A world of small details and warm coincidences hidden in life.
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3 Film
Julie & Julia
The flavor of rediscovering yourself in small steps, as a passion that starts in the kitchen gives life meaning.
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4 Film
Chef
The passion for food, family ties, and the energy of a fresh start.
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5 Film
Paddington
A sweet bear's tale showing that kindness and a little marmalade can warm even a huge city.
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6 Film
Tampopo
A widow searches for the perfect ramen recipe in a merry journey full of love for food and for life.
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7 Film
Mavi Boncuk
The adventures of an inept but kind-hearted gang, a friendship story as good for the heart as a blue evil-eye bead.
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8 Film
Neşeli Günler
A story that reminds us of the warmth of family even amid quarrels, and of how a smile can make peace.
Songs
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9 Song
Here Comes The Sun
Pure brightness announcing that the ice is melting after a long, dark winter.
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10 Song
Good Day Sunshine
A summer-morning song that opens the door with its cheerful piano and fills the room with sunshine.
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11 Song
Morning Has Broken
A simple, peaceful song giving thanks for the first light of morning.
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12 Song
Günaydın
A tiny, glowing song that shares the morning with everyone, saying "today is a new day, a lovely day."
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13 Song
Sunday Best
A sunny, carefree feel-good song that invites you to greet every day like a Sunday morning.
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14 Song
Lovely Day
A rhythm that fills you with the joy of living from the very first second.
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15 Song
Morning Mood (Peer Gynt)
A melody that wakes you up, painting the slow rise of the sun on the flute.
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16 Song
Daydream
A relaxed song that whistles its way through the pleasure of a lazy afternoon.
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17 Song
Kalamış
A song as calm and graceful as a Bosphorus evening, for those who come to find sweet peace on the shore at Kalamış.
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18 Song
Sunflower
A simple guitar melody and a fresh, inward kind of happiness.
Books
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19 Book
My Family and Other Animals
A feast of a book, recounting with laughter a childhood spent under the Corfu sun with an eccentric family and countless animals.
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20 Book
The Enchanted April
A radiant novel in which four women bloom anew during a month at a castle on the Italian coast.
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21 Book
A Good Year
A pleasant story of a man who leaves the London rat race and learns to slow down in a vineyard house in Provence.
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22 Book
Semaver
Stories that bring tenderness to ordinary moments, with the warmth of Ali thinking of his mother over the first tea of the morning.
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23 Book
Mahalle Kahvesi
Stories that open onto the world of the neighborhood coffeehouse, its fishermen and its friends from the islands.
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24 Book
A Room with a View
A refreshing love story about a young woman who dares to listen to her heart in the light of Florence.
Paintings
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25 Painting
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Friends, laughter and a lunch stretching on by the river; a painting that celebrates the warmth of sharing.
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26 Painting
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
The stillness of a sunny day in the park, woven together in pointillist dots.
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27 Painting
Woman with a Parasol
A skirt rippling in the wind, a cloudy sky and the sun: the light, free breath of a summer day.
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28 Painting
Summer's Day
Two women gliding by boat on a lake; the lazy, happy rhythm of summer in light brushstrokes.
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29 Painting
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
With colorful flags, flowers and a sea breeze, it brings back that carefree holiday afternoon.
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30 Painting
Çengelköy Pier
A pier reaching into the still waters of the Bosphorus carries the calm of a seaside morning where time moves slowly.
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31 Painting
Bostancı Sea Baths
Swimmers on the Bostancı shore and a sweet laziness; the cool breeze of old Istanbul summers.