27/03/2014 - Rolando Ravello’s second film in movie theatres on April 3 with 01 is a romantic comedy. Starring Ambra Angiolini and Edoardo Leo

Ti ricordi di me? [+see also:
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Nothing to do with Memento or My Own Private Idaho, simply a romantic comedy, which aim, the director told Cineuropa is to “make the public feel.” Rolando Ravello is first and foremost an actor who started out in 1995 with Ettore Scola in Romanzo di un giovane povero. His first steps as a director were taken with, Tutti contro tutti [+see also:
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Written by Paolo Genovese (director of Tutta colpa di Freud [+see also:
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Why do the characters really suffer from these illnesses? “I had a precise idea of the characters. They are two people who have, for different reasons, an affective hole, which culminates into these phobias. He steals so that he can be caught and told off, like a child. She has lost her parents and is living through nine lives to make herself feel protected. This will help them meet, heal and then lose each other again.” 

(Translated from Italian)