Ua female comedy about friendship. Up tonight Rai 2 Laura Chiatti, Chiara Francini, Antonia Liskova And Jun Ichikawa are the protagonists of Hen party, film by Francesco Apolloni who brings five close friends back together after twenty years of being apart. The opportunity is bachelorette party of one of them.
Too bad that the direct interested, the one who is to get married, does not show up at the party with great pomp that she has organized for her friends. In reality, the future bride forces her former schoolmates to go on a treasure hunt that will take them to the old high school. The bachelorette partythe “crazy” moments of the night are perhaps just a pretext to relive and breathe the bond of the past.
Hen party: the plot
Linda, Eleonora, Vanessa, Akiko and Chiara have been friends since high school. Life events have separated them for a long time. Chiara’s bachelorette party makes her go back to living an adventure together, a little to the style Hangover. Linda (Laura Chiatti) is a photographer, Vanessa (Chiara Francini) an aspiring actress, Eleonora (Antonia Liskova) a life coach, while Akiko (Jun Ichikawa) is set for mentor Baba Yogi and believes herself to be a pink flamingo. One day they get a message from Clear (Antonia Fotaras), who in the meantime has moved to San Francisco, with an invitation to a super bachelorette party.
Laura Chiatti, Chiara Francin, Antonia Liskova and Jun Ichikawa.
The four meet in a luxury hotel in Rome, but Chiara is revealed. The friend left clues to track her down. And so they find themselves wandering around the eternal city far and wide on the notes of I’m not a lady by Loredana Bertè, between funny moments and unexpected stripteases, drinks of Mandrake and confessions, until arriving in the night in front of their old, dear, high school. But there is no trace of the bride: what will be the last surprise for friends?
A comedy about female friendship
The film tells of a friendship between women which starts from the nineties, when the protagonists attended high school and found themselves talking in the cemetery of the English in Rome, near the tomb of John Keatsand that comes on the eve of a marriageto a watershed that should change life a little.
Between a flashback and the other, memories and awareness of the past, friends try to find that lightness and lightheartedness that has become rarefied, that glue that held their relationship together and that over the course of twenty years has dissolved. A melancholy and fun journey into the maze of a an essential feeling like friendship.
Laura Chiatti, Chiara Francini, Antonia Liskova, and Jun Ichikawa.
The look towards the Anglo-Saxon comedy
There are many films about bachelorette and bachelorette parties, most, if not all, are of Anglo-Saxon origin. Let’s think about The Wedding Partyto The bride’s friendsto Hangover. The comedy of Francesco Apolloni it aligns itself with this trail and tries to follow in its footsteps becoming a unicum in our cinema.
The actor, writer and director of The truth I beg you about love (2001) and Do like us (2004) resumes his theatrical piece to make this comedy that will surely make you laugh a few times and maybe push you to call one of your friends you haven’t heard from in a while.
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