THEn first tv at 21.20 on Rai 2 it will be broadcast For all lifean ensemble film directed by Paolo Costella which tells, with grace and irony, the story of four married couples grappling with an invalid marriage. And that they will be faced with the possibility of reconfirm the wedding vows or go their separate ways.
For all life: the plot of the movie
The film has as protagonists four couples whose respective marriages are invalidated since celebrated by a false priest. Consequently, the characters are given, years later, a second chance to get married and this will lead them to different reflections and awareness. As happens, for example, to the interior designer Edo (Luca Bizzarri) who thinks it is better not to remarry to discover once again the taste of being engaged while his Giada (Carolina Crescentini) begins to suspect a betrayal. The good Mark instead (Paolo Kessisoglu) is a man of seemingly immaculate moralitywhich perhaps cannot be said of the beautiful wife Viola (Claudia Gerini).
As for the architect Paola (Claudia Pandolfi), the woman bites the brakes a bit because her Andrea (Filippo Nigro) he insists on expanding the family and remarrying while the woman becomes spokesperson for the Childfree movement. Dulcis in fundo, Sara (Ambra Angiolini) does not resign herself to reading the sentence which, in the absence of marriage, cancels the maintenance allowances that her ex-husband Vito (Fabio Volo) paid her every month.
A gentle comedy
Written by Paolo Genovesethis comedy of “afterthoughts” contains some narrative formulas already successfully tested in the past by the Roman director. As in the cult Immature for example, where it was the high school exam that was invalid but above all Perfect strangers where, as everyone remembers, the couple’s secrets of the protagonists were revealed by cell phones. Despite the similarities, however, Paolo Costella’s film presents some interesting news in the now, at least in Italy, abused genre of dramedy.
Paolo Kessisoglu and Claudia Gerini in a scene from “Per tutto la vita”. (Courtesy 01 Distribution)
Structured like an ensemble comedy where the characters never cross pathsif not for a very short moment, For all life chooses grace and sweetness to address important issues about love and feelings. Of course, the slightly too petty-bourgeois context at the beginning seems to weaken the reflections on married life and feels a bit the lack of a look towards less hipster characters of those painted by Costella. But theto the skill of the entire acting groupespecially Claudia Gerini, still manages to make the less successful passages of the script forgotten.
An original look on the feminine
Thanks to the writer’s contribution to the script Antonella Lattanzi, For all life also strikes for the freshness and modernity of the women we meet. Four female characters who escape the clichés of Italian comedy and who have an almost international taste and from American comedy.
For example the character – exponent of the Childfree movement – interpreted by Claudia Pandolfi, as the director also told in the presentation press conference. «Antonella brought a lot. Paolo Genovese and I had been coming for a few years in which we had reasoned on the stories and focused on the subjects, then we wrote them with her and discussed some of them again. The story of motherhood, for example, comes from her, both in the starting point and in the way we told ithas a lot of Antonella».
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