PRodotto by Netflix in 2023, It was now It also arrives in the clear tonight at 9.30 pm on the first TV on Rai 1. With protagonists Edoardo Leo and Barbara Ronchithe film is a fun and deep comedy who wants to reflect with a smile on topics such as time and inner changes.
It was now: on Rai 1: the plot of the film tonight 22 August on TV
Dante (Edoardo Leo) is a man on the forty -year threshold, deeply in love with his girlfriend Alice (Barbara Ronchi). Their bond is sincere and intense, but Dante’s life is far from simple. It is the classic type that It always lives in a hurry, perpetually in troubleas if the twenty -four hours of a day were never enough for him. Arrive late everywhere, It is divided with difficulty between work, daily responsibilities and personal commitmentstrying in vain to keep everything together. Yet, in his head, he has a plan: If he manages to work enough Now, maybe one day – not too far – he can Finally indulge in some time everything for itself.
However, fate has something very different in store for him. The evening of his fortieth birthday, Dante manages to be even at his party late. Upon awakening, however, something has changed: it is still the day of his birthday but a year has passed. He is now 41 years old, and with great amazement Find out that Alice is four months pregnant. Confused and incredulous, try to understand what is going on, but before it can metabolize the news, A new awakening catapults him another year ahead. This time, To wait for him there is a little girl of a few months named Galadriel who Alice puts him in his arms wishing him good forty -second birthday.
It is at that point that Dante realizes that something in his life went out of control. He is jumping from one year to the next without any memory of the past time, as trapped in a nightmare with open eyes. The years flow before his eyes as pages browned too quickly, and he risks losing everything that really matters. Will be able, before it is too late, to stop and Understanding the true value of time?
Edoardo Leo and Barbara Ronchi in “It was now”. (Photo by Fabio Iovino)
An excellent Italian comedy with an ending up to expectations
Freely inspired by the Australian film As if there was no tomorrow – Long Story Short by Josh Lawson, It was now And An intelligent comedy that tackles deeply deeply themes. As Time, the frenzy of modern life And the fear of getting lost what really matters. With a look at cult titles such as I start again from Capo And Palm Speings, Alessandro Aronadio’s film avoids easy clichés and builds an original narrativecapable of making smiling and reflecting without forcing.
With the right dose of irony and melancholy, It was now Thus manages to touch authentic emotional strings without expanding in sentimentalism. Excellent too photography, which visually accompanies inner changes of the protagonist for a film that is A kind invitation to slow down, to look around and not take for granted what we have.
The ending then, without spoiler, perfectly concludes psychological progression of its protagonist. Excellent Edoardo Leo and Barbara Ronchi – couple with perfect chemistry – but also the format of the format formatamong others, from Raz deganFrancesca Cavallin and by the journalist Andrea Purgatori. At his last appearance before the sudden disappeared in 2023.
In the cast the talented Edoardo Leo and Barbara Ronchi
Roman born in 1972, Edoardo Leo It has been several years One of the most loved actors and directors of Italian cinema. After a lot of apprenticeship, the actor He got his first leading role in 2001 With the TV movie The band while two years becomes Famous thanks to his participation in the fiction A doctor in the family.
Married since 2000 with Laura Marafioti, Edoardo recently he was one of the protagonists of Madly by Paolo Genovese and fiction The illegal immigrant. Very busy in the social, the actor It is in the board of a one hundred thousand, the Foundation against violence against womenand in the union union that struggles so that the workers of the show have fair conditions.
For Barbara Ronchi instead 2025 was the year of consecration Thanks to movies such as Future diva, despite by Valerio Mastandrea and the Rai fiction Fireworks. Very soon he will meet again in Elisafilm by Leonardo di Costanza in competition at the next Venice Film Festival. The story is that of a criminologist (Roschdy Zem) who is interested in Elisa (Ronchi): A woman locked up in prison for 10 years for the barbaric murder, apparently unmotivated, of her sister.