Congratulations to the winners of Paolo Virzì’s award-winning film Il Capitale Umano and the book it was based on, Stephen Amidon’s Human Capital!
5 Lucky winners, Lauren Marino, Sarah Scott, Andy Gyurisin, Matt Buracker, and Susan Deeney were the first 5 to post ‘I Love Italian Movies’ and win the book and the DVD, just recently available from Film Movement. We’d like to thank Film Movement for making this offer, and remind the rest of you that it’s easy to get your own copy of the Human Capital! Right now you can save 10% with the coupon code TODAY10 at checkout.
FILM MOVEMENT has been bringing us award-winning films since 2002 and their catalog contains all of their indie and foreign films. You can purchase individual titles on DVD or watch streams of any of them online. In addition they have many types of DVD collections. We are particularly lucky that they’ve brought us Human Capital.
The film’s cast is inspired, with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s neurotic and tentative mannerisms serving her well as the fragile matriarch, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, the foolish social climber Dino, and newcomer Matilde Gioli absolutely perfect as the teenager that enables everyone’s bad behavior and then runs behind them trying to clean up their messes.
Dino and wealthy narcissist Giovanni Bernaschi (Fabrizio Gifuni) are separated by class but united by their childrens’ friendship and Bruno’s half-baked scheme to make money. Giovanni doesn’t want his wife (Bruni Tedeschi) to worry her “pretty little head” about the financial pickle they find themselves in and Dino keeps his (Valeria Golino) completely in the dark, so she doesn’t even know that she should be worried.
Luigi Lo Cascio is crazy fun in the role of Russomanno, the delusional art director who gets a roll in the hay with a frustrated wife and doesn’t know enough to count his blessings and move on.
If you love the movie, read the book!
Stephen Amidon’s book is a story about Americans in Connecticut and Amidon told me that he was a little apprehensive about how the story would change in an Italian setting, but was “surprised (and gratified) by how similar Paolo Virzi’s version is” to his novel. He joked that “the characters are the same – they are just better looking!”
The soundtrack, often the weakest part of Italian movies is spectacular. Moody, suspenseful, and perfect for the story, it’s from Paolo’s super talented brother Carlo Virzì.
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