Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Alba Rohrwacher | ... | Anna | |
Pierfrancesco Favino | ... | Domenico / Miriam's husband | |
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Teresa Saponangelo | ... | Miriam / Domenico's wife |
Giuseppe Battiston | ... | Alessio | |
Fabio Troiano | ... | Bruno | |
Monica Nappo | ... | Chicca | |
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Tatiana Lepore | ... | Bianca |
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Sergio Solli | ... | Suocero di Domenico / Dominic's father-in-law |
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Gisella Burinato | ... | Zia / Aunt Ines |
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Gigio Alberti | ... | Dott. / Dr. Morini |
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Francesca Capelli | ... | Agnese |
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Danilo Finoli | ... | Ciro |
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Martina De Santis | ... | Isa |
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Leonardo Nigro | ... | Vincenzo |
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Adriana De Guilmi | ... | Madre di Anna |
Anna (Alba Rohrwacher) has everything she thought she could ever need: a respectable career, a caring family, and a loving partner, Alessio. But when she meets Domenico (Pier Francesco Favino), a handsome, married waiter, her neatly ordered world begins to fall apart. They quickly fall into a heated affair, based on secret meetings, stolen caresses, cell phone fights, and endless lies. Anna's increasingly distant behavior goes unnoticed by Alessio, while Domenico's wife becomes steadily more suspicious of her husband. As the two lovers begin to fall deeper under the spell of passion, they are faced with a life-changing choice which neither is entirely prepared to make.
Once the Italians gave up on realism in film they were stuck with movies by such dullards as Antonioni, the bored doings of the rich and fashionable Italians. This movie is not about rich and fashionable Italians but it is still boring. Sexual attraction, can you believe it?, causes problems for all involved and the principal characters have to decide how far they will go in self gratification which also involves harming many other people. Here the ending could go any number of ways and the way it finally goes is certainly believable but also banal. I cannot imagine two more boring hours with some very unappealing Milanesi, not one is really attractive, male or female. Perhaps this is the new realism; give me the old!