ITALY
IT ALL STARTED BY CHANCE
1992 – 35mm – c - 97’
Direction: Umberto Marino
Screenplay: Maria Lurdes Camino, Umberto Marino, Ottavio Sabatucci, Elisabetta Zincone
Cinematography: Alessio Gelsini Torresi
Editing: Simona Poggi
Set design: Osvaldo Desideri
Music: Antonio Di Pofi
Cast: Margherita Buy, Massimo Ghini, Raoul Bova, Barbara Jane Ricasa, Laura Marinoni
Producers: Marco Poccioni, Marco Valsania
Production: Rodeo Drive
SYNOPSIS
Stefania and Luca have been married for some years, but only now their economic life has become stable: she has signed a contract to dub the main character of an endless South-American soap opera and he has got a steady job in the editorial office of a prestigious weekly magazine. It is the right time to settle their house, change their car... and have a baby. It is so that two characters make their appearance: Marilù a Philippinian girl on full-time service for Stefania who looks after her daughter and Romolo, a young plumber from a small village who comes to Stefania and Luca’s house to repair a tap. It is in front of this tap that love at first sight occurs. While love between the two flourishes, Stefania founds out that Luca is unfaithful to her...
CRITICAL NOTE
“(...) Début in the direction for the playwright and scriptwriter U. Marino who does not find the right fusion between realism and tale, cinema and meta-cinema, private and social. Half-hearted, nice. But how good is M. Buy.” (Morandini)
