Elio Germano as Giorgio and Tom Wlaschiha as W.R Neumann in Rose Island
Credit: COURTESY OF NETFLIX
Like novels, everyone’s got an island in them. It’s a common enough dream to have a scrap of land to call your own; somewhere that’s free, inviolate, ours alone.
But like the realms of manuscripts languishing in dusty drawers, most people shelve those dreams when the responsibilities of adulthood begin to lap at their feet.
Not Giorgio Rosa. In spring 1967, the Italian engineer designed and funded a 400m
2 platform in the sea, over 7 miles off the coast of Rimini. Hoisted 26 metres off the seabed by steel pipework, Rosa’s project was an ungainly construction: a concrete bungalow squatting on an oil rig.