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Director:
Writers:
Paolo Franchi (writer)
Heidrun Schleef (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
7 May 2004 (Italy) more
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Valeria is a 26-yr-old inhibited and solitary girl. She lives in Turin, Italy, where she works as a simultaneous translator... more | add synopsis
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2 wins & 2 nominations more
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Cast

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Barbora Bobulova ... Valeria
Andrea Renzi ... Massimo
Brigitte Catillon ... Flavia
Chiara Picchi ... Sonia

Matteo Mussoni ... Andrea
Giorgio Podo ... Lo conosciuto pub
Carlotta Centanni ... L'agente immobiliare
Cesare Cremonini ... Il gufo
Natascia Macchniz ... La traduttrice simultanea
Giorgio Marchesi ... Marc
Raffaele Fallica ... Il portiere
Danielle Baker ... La relatrice
Guido Zaccagnini ... Il mediatore
Settimio Paciotti ... 2e relatore
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Also Known As:
The Spectator (USA)
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Italy:98 min
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Quietly Surprising Film, 13 October 2004
9/10
Author: films42 from Chicago, IL

We saw La Spettatrice last night @ the Chicago International Film Festival & we were both immensely moved by it. This is a haunting tale of loneliness & missed connection in which the longing for intimacy conflicts with our fear of revealing too much about ourselves to another. The three leads (Barbora Bobulova as Valeria, Brigitte Catillon as Flavia, Andrea Renzi as Massimo) are all excellent and the dynamic between them is very surprising.

After all the movies which devalue older women, it's wonderful to see Flavia (who is a law professor at a university in Rome) presented as beautiful & sensual as well as seductive & powerful. We're conditioned to believe that when a younger woman enters 'the mix,' the older woman will become jealous of the younger woman, the man will leave the older woman for the younger woman, etc, etc. In this film, however, emotional truth is considerably more complex. Highly recommended.

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