Lafraid of being alone and of goodbye. Leave one day in Rome, exquisitely romantic comedy by Edoardo Leo on Sky Cinema Uno tonight at 9.15pm speaks exactly of these difficulties, through two couples struggling with doubts and relationship choices.
A broken love story that will make you feel at home, in fact, anyone who has experienced a separation.
Leave one day in Rome, the plot
Against the backdrop of a sublime and magnificent Rome, Zoe (Marta Nieto), an established Spanish businesswoman returns home to her partner Tommaso (Edoardo Leo), a cynical writer who is looking for an ending to his latest book that is not romantic.
Their history is intertwined with that of a couple of friends in crisis: Elena Veneziani (Claudia Gerini), mayor of Rome who neglects his daughter Matilde and her husband Umberto (Stefano Fresi), insecure vice principal of a high school by now decided to part with a “cold and informal lady”.
Edoardo Leo and Marta Nieto. (Sky)
The seemingly perfect relationship between Zoe And Thomas is turned upside down when Thomas find an anonymous letter. Passing off as Gabriel Garcia Marquez the writer replies to a newspaper’s heart mail, giving love advice to strangers.
Among the many bizarre missives he comes across a situation that is too familiar. Zoe he writes that after ten years of living together he does not know if it is still in love with her partner; the feeling has faded and she is thinking of leaving him, but she has to find the right way to not make him suffer. Confused she asks: “How do I know how I feel about him?“.
A contemporary love
Thomas (alias Marquez) starts chatting with his partner in a sincere and cruel virtual correspondence. Maintaining anonymity he asks about the reasons for his unhappiness, and at home he tries to change himself in a desperate attempt to recover the relationship.
Edoardo Leo with Spanish actress Marta Nieto (Sky)
Stubborn, he has the ability to give feelings the right name. On the other hand, more difficult, struggles to find the right words to express their emotions, and he can’t say he can’t stand it when he fills the sink with hair, at 40 he still dresses like a 20-year-old, never wants to drive and is always undecided about everything.
Will they be able to save their love or will they have to say goodbye?
The impossibility of saying goodbye
Edoardo Leo, in his fifth direction, he makes an exciting film that touches many strings. Reflection on love and its eternal mystery. Feelings that change over time without one noticing, or pretend not to see.
And then the difficulty of separating, and facing uncomfortable truths. As Leo himself points out: “Often there is more fear of leaving each other than wanting to be together. And after so many years of living together you ask yourself this question ».
Well scripted along with Marco Bonini, Damiano Bruè And Lisa Ricciardi, Leave one day in Rome addresses the issue of incommunicability that is rampant in today’s society.
“Pretend it’s normal not to be able to be with me anymore”
Accompanied by Forever and For Always from Francesco De Gregori, in an unedited version of piano and voice, and from those of the homonymous song by Niccolò Fabi which gives the title to the film, Leave one day in Rome is a film divided into chapters: end, slowly, dream And accept.
Each of which reveals the double meaning of the words, up to a moving finale full of surprises and desperate attempts to fix something now broken.
Edoardo Leo and Stefano Fresi by bicycle on the Lungotevere. (Sky)
The Leo’s portrait is authentic compared to what happens when the person next to you doesn’t make you happier. When you want to escape from reality where you live because it is not easy to break up after so many years, habits in common.
However, female figures emerge as stronger and more independent, they (finally) occupy the jobs of power and earn more. They are complex and emancipated.
In the wake of the refined miniseries Scenes from a wedding from Hagai Levi, with Jessica Chastain And Oscar Isaac, the film is a theater of emotions, in a whirlwind of events. Of comparisons and low blows that go straight to the heart. A bitter journey of competition, reconquest, and truth to be welcomed.
With bursts of laughter to tears. Where the fear of admitting the truth predominates, especially to oneself. When, on the other hand, we must learn to accept change, even when love ends and transforms itself.
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