02/12/2011

If the couple were a financial product it would be at very high risk. This witticism sums up Giacomo’s (Fabio Volo - photo) philosophy, a forty-year-old single man firmly intent on continuing to collect women without marrying any of them. Michela (Isabella Ragonese) will be the one to make him surrender and to make him admit that you can fall in love, you can commit, all the way to marriage.

Fabio Volo took his bestseller from 2007, "Il giorno in più", as a basis for the screenplay of the homonymous film, directed by Massimo Venier, which will be distributed today by 01. The million readers who bought the book are the potential viewers for this big romantic and self-referential story produced by Ibc Movie with Rai Cinema, which could be the sequel to Alessandro D'Alatri’s Casomai, starring Fabio Volo nine years ago. In Casomai the former start of TV show ‘Le Iene’ (The Hyenas) was making his debut on the big screen, marrying Stefania Rocca, and saw love slowly changing into hate. Il giorno in più [+see also:
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film profile], in a more banal way, is a lesson to the fools of love, an incitement to those who are afraid to love to form a bond.

Of the book, together with the other screenwriters, Michele Pellegrini, Federica Pontremoli and Venier himself, Volo has kept the most brilliant side, the visual aspect – the tram and a Milan loved by the author, a New York of skyscrapers and the old blood-red Buicks – the ironic references to social changes ("today there are lovers instead of fiances, starters instead of dinners, internships instead of work contracts").

Shot in the Big Apple, the second part of this clean romantic comedy brings the film to an explicable duration of almost two hours, damaging the rhythm acquired in the first part and unravelling its plot. The cast includes the commendable Camilla Filippi and Pietro Ragusa. There are short appearances from Luciana Littizzetto, Lino Toffolo and Stefania Sandrelli.

(Translated from Italian)