Just the one new Italian release this week, Silvio Muccino”s Parlami d”amore, which has hopped in at the top of the box office (Caos Calmo is a close runner up), taking ten times as much in Italy as the high profile US release There Will Be Blood. Again, though, it has to be said that this demonstrates the tendency that, while Italian filmmakers are coming up with stuff that is extremely popular in the domestic market, they really seem to have lost the knack of making films that can do just as well in export.
The story here revolves around Sasha (played by director Silvio Muccino), a young lad who is in love with the unresponsive Benedetta (Carolina Crescentini) and takes refuge in his friendship with Nicole (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón), an older French woman who lives in Rome with her husband.
You”ve got to applaud Muccino for making such a succesful film at the tender age of 26 (you may remember him from CQ and The Card Player). Aitana Sánchez-Gijón was in I”m Not Scared and The Machinist, and also in the cast is Geraldine Chaplin.