Genre: Comedy

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Mimmo Calopresti

Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Gérard Depardieu, Donatella Finocchiaro, Elena Bouryka, Paolo Briguglia, Nino Frassica, Lucia Ragni

Released: 2007

Duration: 103 Minutes

Rating: M contains offensive language

Distribution: Istituto Luce

Official Selection at the 2008 Rome Film Festival.

Mimmo Calopresti's ensemble charmer is the tale of three aspiring young filmmakers with a movie camera who dream of bringing a local Calabrian story to the big screen.

The seaside town of Diamante in Calabria is the kind of place where time seems to stand still.  Bored youngster Gabriele (Paolo Briguglia), along with two friends, interview family and neighbors in search of a story good enough to film. They find it in Aunt Caterina, who fell in love with a distant cousin when they were teens just before he emigrated to America, and for whose return she is still waiting. Neri (Diego Abatantuono), a former film director now living in Diamante is no help in helping them realize their dream, so they decide to travel to Rome in search of a big name actor. There they meet Amelie (Valerie Bruni Tedeschi), who seems interested in their film, telling them she will mention it to Gerard, her fiancé.  Gerard turns out to be Gerard Depardieu, the actress’ real fiancé!  Could this be the turning point for them?

Winsomely seductive, slightly wacky, this film is best described by Jay Weissberg of Variety:

“An insider film par excellence, stuffed with friends and colleagues and shot in the southern region of Italy Calopresti left as a child, pic is a love letter not just to his roots, but to the concept that "history is tangible; it clings to the land.".  Even those not in the know should be pleasantly seduced by the warmth radiating from the screen, highlighted by a complete lack of pretension.”