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(La parola amore esiste) (Italy/France) Directed by Mimmo Calopresti
Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Mimmo Calopresti, Gérard Depardieu
Plot: (from Inside Out review) Thirty-year-old Angela (Bruni Tedeschi) is sick with something more than love in this tale of star-crossed lonelyhearts. Sick with solitude, plagued by omens and obsessions, she fixes on a cello teacher she barely knows (Bentivoglio) as the love of her life. Depardieu plays a lawyer who, like Angela's cellist, is the object of affection for a woman Angela meets in the hospital.
Production Note: (from filmfestivals.com) Calopresti's switch from an ideological to an emotional focus found a prestigious patron in Gérard Depardieu, who makes a brief appearance as a sympathetic lawyer, and initially was to be involved in a production capacity. After reading a 15-page treatment of La parola amore esiste, the French actor likened his enthusiasm for the material to his response to Truffaut's The Woman Next Door. "I loved Calopresti's story because it's the right kind of story for the end of the millennium," said Depardieu. "There are no more certainties, the patriarchal family is finished, traditional values have disappeared, and solitude is all that's left. And to avoid being alone, one looks for love."
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