S.keyboard on Channel 5 (at 21.10) there is to smile and get excited with the choral comedy by Fausto Brizzi If you love me with Claudio BisioSergio Rubini, Lucia Ocone, Flavio Insinna and with the songs of Luca Carboni (also in a cameo) ed Edoardo Bennato. The story goes back to a previous book of the same Brizzi in which different genres are mixed, many characters, comic moments and others serious to tell a microcosm of human beings that needs direct confrontation, of the chat with friends and family to feel good. In the face of social media.
And in this shouting of Chatter (just like the name of the meeting place of the film) issues such as love in its many forms: there are parents who trying to recover the relationship with their children, brothers who do not know each other at all and who try to get closerand friends who will finally take off their masks to tackle complex topics.
If you love me: the plot
Diego (Claudio Bisio) is a successful lawyer, a chronic depressed person who one day attempts suicide without success. From that moment a new phase in his life begins thanks also to the shop of Chatter by Massimiliano (Sergio Rubini), where nothing is sold, if not conversations.
And it is just chatting with him that Diego understands what the solution is to get out of his crisis: do good to all his loved ones. And so our protagonist goes to great lengths to help her mother, father, brother, daughter Laura (Lorraine Hunter)friends and even his ex-wife (Maria Amelia Monti). With the precision of a blindfolded sniper, she ends up ruining the lives of each of them. But all is not lost.
A film that is good for the heart
Fausto Brizzi he called his film a dramedy or, as they say in France, one comédie dramatiquethe genre that the director loves the most and that he touched with his debut film (Night before exams)not surprisingly the most autobiographical of all. If you love me “it’s a movie on friendship and on the importance of affections in times of difficulty – he declared Brizzi – a movie therapeutic which I hope is good for the heart of those who see it“.
Gian Marco Tognazzi and Claudio Bisio. (Mediaset)
The characters of If you love me
Diego is the character around which the threads of the comedy are intertwined. He is a lawyer in a large firm, he is divorced from Giulia and has a daughter, Laura, which he can never see. One day she decides to change his life. The meeting with Maximilianthe shop owner Chatter, it will trigger something unexpected in him. Those who enter there can make themselves comfortable, play table football and talking with friends.
Luca (Dino Abbrescia) is a historical friend of Diego and has been sharing his life with for a very long time Simona (Susy Laude): The two argue often, but they have no intention of breaking up. Laura is obsessed with work, with her it is difficult to put an appointment on the agenda, maybe he needs to enjoy life a little bit. The mother Giulia, and Diego’s ex-wife, runs a historic bookshop. Her life motto is: “God bless divorce“.
Elena Santarelli and Sergio Rubini. (Mediaset)
There are also Luca Carboni and Memo Remigi
Valeria Fabrizi interprets Oliviamom of Diego, a retired Latin and Greek teacher who lives surrounded by her cats. Flavio Insinna is Edoardoa not-so-lucky actor that one fine day, along with Maximilianhe decides to help Diego in his absurd plan of make the most important people in your life happy.
The cast of “If you love me”. (Mediaset)
Lucia Ocone interprets Loredana, Diego’s best friend. She is a mom single musician, kind of Bridget Jones but less cool. Diego has planned to find him a partner. Daniela (Elena Santarelli) instead is a somewhat true barista specializing in foamed coffee, the protagonist’s favorite, while Alessandro (Gian Marco Tognazzi), brother of Diego, is a conceptual artist and taxinist. There are also in the cast Cochi Ponzone, Memo Remigi (Diego’s father) and Luca Carboni, who plays himself in a cameo.
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