I Love Italian Everything

It’s made 5.293.000 euro already in Italy, the critics love it and audiences do too. We expect multiple nominations from the Davids and the Nastri D’Argentos. And it was the Belle of the Ball in Berlin, selling to over 25 countries in the European Film Market. Doesn’t look like the US is one of those countries yet but I’ll be watching. The story which was taken from an American novel by Stephen Amidon and the set in Connecticut lends itself well to an Italian backdrop, a country in crisis and economically “corrupt”. Starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni, Luigi Lo Cascio, Giovanni Anzaldo, Matilde Gioli and Guglielmo Pinelli, the story begins one Christmas Eve night in a town on Lake Como when a working guys’s bicycle is hit by a rich guy’s SUV. What exactly happened is the question, and it’s a question that will change the lives of two families, and maybe that of one desperate person who had nothing to do with the accident. On a side note, the film got some extra publicity when local politicians protested against it, angry about what they see as negative depiction of the region.