Genre: Drama

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Susanna Tamaro

Cast: Licia Maglietta, Urbano Barberini, Alessia Fugardi & Vincent Riotta

Released: 2004

Duration: 95 Minutes

Rating: M contains adult themes

Distribution: Adriana Chiesa Enterprises

After the sudden death of her husband, Stella (Licia Maglietta – Bread & Tulips, Agata and the storm) returns to her childhood home on the lakeside. The same house those twenty years earlier where Stella had fallen irresistibly in love with the young aristocrat Fausto. She had been fascinated by his fine breeding, flattered by his attentions, spellbound by his dark melancholy. Yet soon their marriage was plagued by Fausto’s relentless suspicion and jealousy, which resulted in his rejection of their son and a tragic accident, and Stella’s lost connection with her daughter. Alone at the house by the lake Stella contemplates and questions her life’s choices. Then she encounters a mysterious painter living in great solitude in the surrounding mountains and forges a rare friendship that reveals to Stella an astonishing fact about her past. Hidden in the enigmatic painter’s message is perhaps the force for a veritable ‘revolution of the heart’. For Stella, it bears a lesson in love, forgiveness and healing. It is the formidable discovery of the power of love and the hope for a new life.

A festival favourite, Licia Maglietta continues to delight with her heart felt portrayal of a woman searching for some form of inner peace. An uplifting story.

Taken from the book by Susanna Tamaro "Rispondimi"