06/07/2009

A delicate, delightful, low-budget and somewhat old-fashioned comedy is going up against US blockbusters this week: Tutti intorno a Linda [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (“Everyone Around Linda”), the debut film by young directors Barbara and Monica Sgambellone.

The story centres on a bright, 30-year-old, insecure hypochondriac (Italian-Argentinean actress Maria Victoria Di Pace) with her head in the clouds, who is diagnosed with endometriosis, with two possible cures. She must either get an operation or have a child within a year.

She opts for the latter, but how to choose the ideal man, in a short period of time, among the usual "candidates"? Giacomo (Salvatore Nicosia), who is macho, narcissistic and egotistical? Her ex-boyfriend Stefano (Marco Cocci), with whom she constantly fights? Lorenzo (Danilo Brugia), with whom Linda has great sex? An encounter with the four-year-old niece of her best friend will help Linda set her priorities straight.

According to the directors, "We wanted to tell the story of a confused young woman who alternates, discovers and studies her fears in a crescendo of moods that reaches the heights of irrationality. But life always brings surprises, which is what we really wanted to stress".

(Translated from Italian)