A Special Day

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A Special Day (Un giorno speciale)

A Special Day (Un giorno speciale)

A Special Day (Un giorno speciale)

original title:

Un giorno speciale

cast:

screenplay:

Francesca Comencini, Giulia Calenda, from the novel "Il cielo con un dito" by Claudio Bigagli

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country:

Italy

year:

2012

film run:

89'

format:

colour

release date:

04/10/2012

Gina and Marco are both very young and are determined to be “someone.” They meet one morning in a shabby suburb at the gates of Rome. She has an appointment with a politician who could put a good word in for her and help her enter the entertainment world; he is the driver who has to take her to the meeting. It is the moment both have been waiting for: their fi rst day of work and their entry into the adult world. But nothing goes according to plan. The politician, stuck in a never-ending parliamentary session, keeps postponing the meeting, leaving the two young people in a limbo of waiting that soon turns into a special day. It will take them from the provinces to the heart of the capital, in which the two of them will get to know each other. But the immediate future is always lying in ambush. Just when Marco and Gina have revealed their true selves and entered under each other’s skin, forgetting about everything else— including that appointment which just a few hours earlier had seemed so important to them—the eagerly anticipated phone call comes crashing down on them. Later, when Marco takes Gina back home, night has fallen and so has the silence between them. Their lives have changed.