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Overview

User Rating:
4.6/10   1,301 votes
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Director:
Luca Guadagnino
Writers:
Melissa P. (memoir)
Barbara Alberti (writer) ...
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Release Date:
18 November 2005 (Italy) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
You have to lose yourself before you can find yourself
Plot:
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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Sundance 2008 Interview: Anna Negri (Riprendimi)
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User Comments:
Loosely based on an atrocious "novel" more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

María Valverde ... Melissa P.
Letizia Ciampa ... Manuela
Primo Reggiani ... Daniele
Fabrizia Sacchi ... Daria
Geraldine Chaplin ... Nonna Elvira
Nilo Mur ... Marco
Claudio Santamaria ... Custode del museo
Carlo Antonelli ... Prof. Italiano
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio ... Istruttore di nuoto
Marcello Mazzarella ... Chiunque
Elio Germano ... Arnaldo
Alba Rohrwacher ... Clelia
Davide Pasti ... Leo
Francesca Madaro ... Livia
Esmeralda Prete ... Titti
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
Country:
Italy | Spain
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
SDDS | Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Italy more
Company:
Bess Movie more

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Trivia:
The film's title Melissa P. (2005) is derived not from the title of but from the actual name of the author Melissa P. of its source novel, "One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed". more
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Spoofed in Ti stramo (2008) more
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Swan more

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10 out of 19 people found the following comment useful:-
Loosely based on an atrocious "novel", 19 July 2007
2/10
Author: torched84 from United States

I saw very little of the book in this film, this is not to say that this alone makes for a poor movie. As a matter of fact it was better that the book despite the fact that I still thought it was awful. I personally feel that the only reason any one bothered to make this book into a film was because of the shock value. Melissa's sexual exploits were for the most part disgusting and whatever was left over was disturbing. I'm not prude but that book nauseated me, and the movie wasn't much better. At least the movie had some kind of a story. The book was more or less a detailed list of all the raunchy things she had done in her past, there was no connection between her and any part of her family. No mention of the grandmother that figures quite largely into the movie's plot, not a peep. All in all if you have the choice between the movie or the book pick the movie, at least it is shorter.

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