13/12/2005

The new film by Leonardo Pieraccioni, Ti amo in tutte le lingue del mondo, is coming to 550 Italian screens this Friday, distributed by Medusa Film. The story of a love triangle between Pieraccioni, a 16 year-old girl and a beautiful veterinarian will be going up against Peter Jackson’s King Kong, but the Tuscan director isn’t worried: "There’s a scene of Rocco Papaleo naked in my film and I assure you, he’s got more hair than the big ape."

Leonardo Pieraccioni, who wrote the film with Giovanni Veronesi, who has been by his side for over ten years (and eight films), plays gym teacher Gilberto, recently separated from his wife. One of his students is in love with him: Paolina (Giulia Elettra Gorietti), a 16 year-old who leaves him love notes in all the languages of the world, yet he only has eyes for Margherita (Spanish actress Marjo Berasategui), an animal psychologist he met by mistake in a house for swingers. "This film about ‘complicated’ love is my 40 year-old film,” said Pieraccioni. “I turned 40 recently and have to admit it wasn’t easy. I think I conveyed that in the film. The ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ is amusing at 35, after that you just become pathetic."

In the film, Pieraccioni is flanked by Papaleo, Giorgio Panariello, Massimo Ceccherini and Francesco Guccini. "I talk about the Italy of today, in which only the Chinese immigrants speak perfect Italian. This is why, besides all the languages in the world, I also wanted to show all the dialects. In the dry cleaners, where all the facts of the film are commented upon, I recreated a kind of Tower of Babel (with the very Roman Elisabetta Rocchetti, the Tuscan Barbara Enrichi and Sicilian Fabrizio Pizzuto) in which a stutterer narrates the film."

(Translated from Italian)