35mm – colore - 116’

Direction: Carlo Verdone
Screenplay: Carlo Verdone, Pasquale Plastino, Piero De Bernardi, Fiamma Satta
Cinematography: Danilo Desideri
Editing: Claudio Di Mauro
Set design: Maurizio Marchitelli
Music: Lele Marchitelli
Costumes: Maurizio Millenotti
Cast: Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy, Anita Caprioli, Antonio Catania, Lucia Sardo, Stefano Pesce, Massimiliano Amato, Luciano Gubinelli, Raquel Sueiro, Sergio Graziani
Production: Virginia, in cooperation with Warner Bros Italia

SYNOPSIS

Eight people, of different ages and with different stories, live in Rome united only because they are in the same therapy group. This includes three women and four men, whose stories show in a comical way, from choral scenes to more intimate ones, the frailty but also the wish to change and the ability to react typical of our contemporaries.

CRITICAL NOTE

“Excellent: an Italian comedy which is about psychoanalysis and which follows the eight patients of a group therapy, and which does not tease, does not describe oddballs, does not ridicule, confining itself to slight irony. In one of his most reflective and cautious films, Carlo Verdone presents chorally characters whose illness represents the neurotic exasperation of the most common existential trouble and malaise; this allows the spectators to identify themselves with them, and the director to examine our altered present times.” (Lietta Tornabuoni, La Stampa)

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