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Kim Rossi Stuart | ... | Guido | |
Micaela Ramazzotti | ... | Serena | |
Martina Gedeck | ... | Helke (as Martina Friederike Gedeck) | |
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Samuel Garofalo | ... | Dario |
Niccolò Calvagna | ... | Paolo | |
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Benedetta Buccellato | ... | Nonna Marcella |
Pia Engleberth | ... | Nonna Marina | |
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Enzo Ardone | ... | Lino |
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Giandomenico Cupaiuolo | ... | Salvatore |
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Angelique Cavallari | ... | Michelle |
Silvia D'Amico | ... | Gabriella | |
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Chiara Pegorer | ... | Ragazza Trasteverina |
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Felice Levini | ... | Curatore Mostra |
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Anna Campori | ... | Bisnonna |
Sylvia De Fanti | ... | Florinda |
Guido, a narcissistic artist rambles around his studio in the company of a bevy of attractive young women, arousing the jealousy and anger of his devoted wife, Serena, who is rapidly tiring of her husband's peccadilloes. Thanks to the help of Helke, a gallery owner, an attractive middle-aged woman, Guido gets an important commission for an art show in Milan, which somehow goes disastrously wrong. Accused of lack of passion by a local art critics, he becomes extremely sensitive to criticism of any sort, and is taken aback when his wife reveals that she is taking the kids off to a feminist retreat in France at the invitation of Helke's who pushed his career forward. This vacation turns his life upside down and forces him to confront all those things that have limited his art. Written by Cineuropa
Oh my god, this one is hard to review... Yes, the acting is good throughout, there is nothing wrong with the cinematography, the dialogs are not bad, the characterization, etc, etc... The problem however is that this is in essence a boring movie, 90 minutes of a story about nothing. We never get to care about any of the protagonists, what happens to them or not. Very much like the art of the main character, the movie is an abstraction we are supposed to call art, because some critic or other says so. In the movie, even the artist is waiting to hear from the critic if his accomplishments are to be 'art' or not.
Furthermore, if the film was to be a depiction of the roaring seventies, it is lacking in all aspects, it is far too much engaged in a mass of unnecessary details to paint for us anything of real relevance. I read somewhere that this film is supposed to be an autobiographical biopic of Lucchetti's childhood. If this is the case, I can understand how it can be interesting and compelling for him and his immediate family, but hardly to anyone else.