Sand Italian cinema today is increasingly distant from the glories of a glorious past, Paolo Genovese can be classified as the director of exceptions to the rule. His cult work, Perfect Strangersshe entered in the Guinness Book of Records for the most remakes (over 30) in the history of cinema. A fortunate destiny of success also transposed into the his comedies, loved by the public for their recognizable style and balance between smile and drama. The secret of his films? Allowing the viewer to totally identify with the unexpected depths of the story.
What do all Paolo Genovese’s films have in common?
Whether they are family Christmas comedies, philosophical dramas or stories on the edge of the surreal, Paolo Genovese’s works for the big screen always start from the most classic of cinephile questions: What if? What if? An assumption and rule of the game which, although largely explored, always manages to transform into something new and attractive. His world is based on very realistic facts to which he adds, sometimes unharmoniously, conceptual reflections and moral dilemmas, not always told with equal intensity in the tried and tested structure of his films.
His secret weapons I’m there sincerity of emotions and the courage to explore timeless themesembracing entire universes in the name of friendship, love and family relationships, often put to the test by extreme choices and deviations from the norm.
Films by Paolo Genovese: all the titles, the best, the latest
Madly by Paolo Genovese
The story of Madly broadly resembles the structure of Inside Out. In the Disney title, emotions speak in the head of a little girl, ready to grow through all the nuances of her introspection. In that of Paolo Genovesewho revealed that he had a similar idea but long before the animated film’s release, chooses to give coherence to the fears and inner personalities of two adults on their first date.
Pilar Fogliati and the much more mature Edoardo Leo prepare for a romantic dinner enlivened by 8 mental voices which color the event with fears, obsessions, emotional and sexual impulses. A crowded inner world composed of Marco Giallini, Emanuela Fanelli, Maria Chiara Giannetta, Claudia Pandolfi, Vittoria Puccini, Maurizio Lastrico, Rocco Papaleo and Claudio Santamaria. The happy ending is guaranteed but with realistic moderation.
Films by Paolo Genovese on Netflix: Immature
The comedy of 2011the director’s fifth, puts into practice the maxim of exams that never end. When the Ministry of Education cancels the high school leaving exam taken twenty years earlier, a group of former high school classmates must return to school. The unexpected reunion first makes the otherwise young people euphoric and full of expectations, then it turns into a reckoning with the past and the end of illusions.
An unpretentious mix of Schoolmates by Carlo Verdone e The Big Cold by Lawrence Kasdan. The surprise is Raoul Bovaperfect in the role of a seductive man who always looks to the past.
Anita Caprioli during the presentation of the film “Immaturi” by Paolo Genovese. (Handle)
Paolo Genovese’s next film, The noise of new things
What is known about The noise of new thingsthe next film directed by Paolo Genovese? The director returns to explore the choral emotions of 3 Milanese families between malaise, crisis and desire to live. Based on his 2023 novel of the same namehas a cast that Stefano Accorsi, Emanuela Fanelli, Vittoria Puccini and Claudio Santamaria. The plot revolves around the small unspeakable secrets of tried and tested couples.
Andrea is a photographer who came back to life thanks to the immense generosity of a nurse. Umberto is in constant conflict with Alba, increasingly drained by an unsatisfactory life. Viola is an actress who can’t stop working even off the stage. A meeting will upset their plans.
Paolo Genovese’s next film “The noise of new things”. (Press Office)
Best film by Paolo Genovese, Perfect Strangers
The 2016 film, the most appreciated by director Paolo Genovese, boasts over 30 remakes worldwide and has the ability to tell a simple story in an unforgettable way. Seven longtime friends meet for dinner: someone among them proposes almost as a game of putting their cell phones on the table and share hands-free messages and phone calls in real time.
What was supposed to be a joke will turn into a sentimental drama. Net of some theatrical excesses, it has undoubted merit tell without filters reality ambivalent of emotional relationships. The best of the cast? Giuseppe Battiston.
Benedetta Porcaroli and Anna Foglietta in “Perfect Strangers”. (Press Office)
Movies Superheroes by Paolo Genovese
How long does a love relationship last exactly? For the director and for the protagonists of Superheroes (2021) Jasmin Trinca and Alessandro Borghi, a magnificent and complicated eternity. Anna and Marco meet by chance in the rain and love at first sight strikes between them. Their bond starts off very well, full of feeling and desire to share every moment together.
Time, however, creeps into their perfect daily life until the inevitable crisis. Genovese’s least considered yet most intimate and personal filmwhich puts the romantic ideal on the table by depriving it of any banality.
Alessandro Borghi and Jasmin Trinca in “Superheroes”. (Off press)
Comedy film by Paolo GenoveseThe Band of Santa Clauses
The comic trio Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo intersects with great effectiveness with the director in a Christmas comedy of good feelings and pleasant laughter. Aldo is happily married to Monica but has little desire to work. Giovanni is a bigamous veterinarian who hates animals and one of the mothers-in-law (Mara Maionchi).
Giovanni is a doctor, a widower, attracted by a colleague but suffocated by feelings of guilt for a possible betrayal of the deceased. Due to a misunderstanding, the three are mistaken for the famous gang of thieves disguised as Santa Claus and I end up at the police station. A good policewoman (Angela Finocchiaro) resolves the misunderstanding.
New film by Paolo Genovese, The Place
Valerio Mastrandrea transforms into a cynical genie. With the promise to fulfill every requested wish, a mysterious character waits every day in a place called The Place people ready for anything in order to achieve their heterogeneous goals. There are those who want to become beautiful, those who want to be very successful, those who want to save a love. In exchange for happinessa single condition: they will have to carry out rather questionable actions. Loosely based on the American series The Booth at the End, This 2017 film negatively pays the price for being subsequent to the idolized Perfect Strangers.
The cult location of “The Place”. (Press Office)
Film by Paolo Genovese, The first day of my life
Four characters in a difficult moment in their livesthey decided to leave tragically leave this world. Before the insane gesture, they meet a mysterious man (Toni Servillo) that makes them an offer they really can’t refuse.
The possibility of observing events for a few days after their death will change their destiny in an unexpected way. A cross between a compendium of philosophy and echoes of Life is wonderful, not particularly successful, which is loved thanks to some excellent protagonists as Valerio Mastrandrea and Margherita Buy.
