Guido is shy, reserved, and very cultured. While Antonia is restless, touchy and proudly ignorant. He works as a night porter and has a passion for ancient languages and the history of saints. She is an aspiring singer and an employee at a used cars dealership. They both see each other in the early morning when Guido returns from his night shift and wakes her up with breakfast. And every single day they love each other. The two are the protagonists, of a funny and romantic love story in a complicated city like Rome,surrounded by crude neighbors. Nevertheless, even though coming from completely different family backgrounds, Guido and Antonia are happy and desperate. Their love seems indistructible, until an obession of wanting to have a child triggers unforeseen consequences.
Director: Paolo Virzì
Italy, 2012, 102 minutes
Film in Italian with English subtitles
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PAOLO VIRZÌ
Paolo Virzì is an Italian director-screenwriter, born in Livorno in 1964. Virzì graduated from the Cinema Experimental Center in Rome, he started by writing a few scripts for cinema and TV. In 1994, his first feature, La Bella Vita, won the Golden Ciak at the 51st Venice Film Festival. Virzì has made since then nine movies including Ovosodo, which was awarded the special Jury’s Grand Prize and the Little Golden Lion at the 1997 Venice Film Festival.