ITALY
DAMNED THE DAY I MET YOU
1992 – 35mm – c - 115’
Direction: Carlo Verdone
Screenplay: Carlo Verdone, Francesca Marciano
Cinematography: Danilo Desideri
Editing: Antonio Siciliano
Set design: Francesco Bronzi
Music: Fabio Liberatori; Brani di Jimy Hendrix
Cast: Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy, Elisabetta Pozzi, Giancarlo Dettori, Alexis Meneloff
Producers: Mario e Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Production: C.G. Group Tiger, Penta Film
SYNOPSIS
Bernardo Arbusti is a rock music critic, in search of information about Jimi Hendrix, whose biography he is writing. The effort of the research makes him neglecting his fiancée Adriana, who leaves him with his neurosis. Relying on the psycho-analyst Ludwig Altieri, on the doctor’s landing he bumps into young Camilla, an actress, neurotic her too, that, during the shots, falls into continuous slips of the tongue, compelling to innumerable repetitions. A bizarre solidarity establishes between then, made up of mutual confidences on their own neurosis, symptoms, therapies. But their understanding is soon troubled by Bernardo who dos not bear Camilla’s loving transfert for Altieri...
CRITICAL NOTE
“We don’t spare laughs and we don’t regret it. A sign that the alchemy between multifaceted Verdone and Margherita Buy is perfect.”(Tullio Kezich)
“(...) A malleable, intelligent actress, Margherita Buy can graduate the passages from the comic moments to paroxysmal and sentimentalisms.” (Francesco Bolzoni)
“(...) Here Margherita Buy reveals to be a sensitive interpreter.” (Fabio Ferzetti)
AWARDS
1992 Ciak d’Oro to Margherita Buy
1992 David di Donatello: Best Actor Carlo Verdone, Best Script (Francesca Marciano e Carlo Verdone), Best Non Leading Actress (Elisabetta Pozzi), Best Photography (Danilo Desideri), Best Editing (Antonio Siciliano).
