Conversations with other womenthe plot of the film on Rai Movie
On a summer evening, In Tropea, a wedding is celebrated. A man (Francesco Scianna) door of Champagne to a woman (Valentina Lodovini, Welcome to the South). He is the bride’s brother, She replaces the seventh bridesmaid at the last minutewho had an accident. They begin to converse amiably, Like two kind and perfect strangers, but without saying their name.
The minutes pass and from innocent speeches you pass on the staff. The feeling is evident and it turns out that this approach is a game between them. It is not the first time they meet: The two were husband and wife, they divorced 10 years ago And they haven’t seen each other since then. She remarried with a cardiologist, Jeffrey, and now lives in New York. He is a lawyer, boyfriend with Sarah, a 22 -year -old professional dancer who works for a theatrical show.
Francesco Scianna in “Conversations with other women” (39 Films)
Conversations with other women: love returns for a night of passion
Despite the past time it is evident that, among them, The spark never went out. The courtship continues: he tells her on the first day they met, but he misses many details. This fact creates the first scaramuccia between the two, highlighting some problems never solved. But passion has the best: despite the obstacles of a perfectly organized marriage, which leaves the two almost never alone, They finally manage to spend the night together.
The fireworks and a wild nature underline the moment of unrepeatable freedom. After love, the conversation continues on the thread of memories. On physical changes, on the past engraved on the body. He breaks the spell by revealing that he still loving herof never having stopped loving her. She seems imperturbable, she would never leave her husband to go back.
Nevertheless, Her words do not leave her indifferent. The mobile phones ring but they do not respond, too busy keeping an ancient adventure alive that will end soon. This moment of intimacy and slow seduction Could they change their lives?
The review and the cast
Filippo Conz (suspended coffee), which was formed in the United States, with Conversations with other women Bring an anomalous film to the big screen for an Italian audienceshot with studied slowness and full of dialogues made of implicit and unspoken. A delicious game of Chinese boxes where First love is represented as a one -night amorous skirmish, without consequences.
Then as regret and nostalgia of something that will no longer be able to return. A principle of reality that in the second part of the film, like a current of mirrors, puts the protagonists facing each other in one present that has changed everything. To reveal the distance is always herthe most rational and stronger of the two: “A wedding must be extraordinary, you are afraid of the” we “” but I am now old for the extraordinary “.
To make the long flow of consciousness of the protagonists, rigorously without name, is credible and never boring, is A cast formed by a couple of actors of great skill. Francesco Scianna, recently seen in At home all well – the series, embodies the romantic impulsiveness of a never grownwhich is fine without end in remorse.
Valentina Lodovini leads the game perfectly like A seductive Penelope who weaves and then gets away the canvas. The only one to really have something to lose because of a moment of bewilderment. The actress is in the cinema with Unicorns by Michela Andreozzi.
Valentina Lodovini in “Conversations with other women” (39 Films)
Conversations with other womenthe ending (spoiler)
When the woman discovers that the bridesmaid dress should have worn it sarah, she enters crisis. A randomness? He hoped that they could start again and instead everything is now defined on the ending. The possibility of returning as a couple vanishes at dawn with a phone call.
Sarah, warned by a jealous bridesmaid (Chiara Baschetti) Call the boyfriend. He promptly denies that there has been something between themthat the woman is not absolutely important. On the notes of At least you in the universe of Mia Martini, The former spouses greet each other with great melancholy: He returns to the hotel, she runs to the airport to go home.