original title:
Manuale d'amore
directed by:
cast:
Luciana Littizzetto, Anita Caprioli, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Verdone, Silvio Muccino, Dino Abbrescia, Eugenia Costantini, Sabrina Impacciatore, Lavinia Biagi, Rodolfo Corsato, Sergio Rubini, Dario Bandiera, Luis Molteni, Elda Alvigini, Michele Di Mauro, Giuseppe Gandini, Francesco Mandelli, Anna Orso
screenplay:
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music:
producer:
production:
distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2005
film run:
90'
format:
35mm - colour
release date:
18/03/2005
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"Manuale d'amore" It is a story about love seen through a kaleidoscope, whose changing colors represent "Falling in Love", " the Crisis", " Betrayal " and lastly " Abandonment ". The four chapters of the “MANUAL” are seen through the lives of four different couples, who like in a relay race will pass on the baton. Tommaso and Giulia go through all the phases of “Falling in Love”: the first date, the first kiss, the passionate sex, the living together, the marriage. Barbara and Marco face their first “Crisis” after years of love: will a son be able to help them get over it? Ornella experiences the drama of “Betrayal” possessing a unique strength as one 'global ' enemy Goffredo will describe “being Abandoned”. He is so unprepared to face this first great tragedy in his life, that he will seek help from a book on tape, that he will haphazardly have picked up in a bookstore, and whose reassuring title is called: "Manuale d'Amore".