22/01/2015 - Directed by Paolo Genovese, the film is released today in 425 theatres via 01. Also in theatres is the new movie by Francesca Archibugi, the doc Piccoli così and the animated movie Minuscule

Another sex symbol of Italian cinema playing, onscreen, a farmer. After Stefano Accorsi in La nostra terra [+see also:
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Bova is Renzo, the charming farmer, who’s rational and practical. He meets Guia (Argentine Liz Solari), the elegant journalist of a prestigious fashion magazine, when she discovers that she has inherited a farm in a remote village of Apulia. Naturally, opposites attract, and between city and countryside, the two different lifestyles come face to face, in an engaging carousel in which Guia (Pietro Sermonti)’s tax-adviser boyfriend and his frantic assistant (Giulia Michelini) will find themselves faced with the colourful characters of this village in Apulia. There’s the forward-thinking barman and the conservatives (Emilio Sofrizzi and Sergio Rubini), Guia’s autistic cousin (Neri Marcorè) and the daydreamer and bank teller (Sabrina Impacciatore). The film is a Pepito production with Rai Cinema, made with the support of Mibact and the Apulia Film Commission.

Another omnibus film released, with an exceptional cast in a state of grace, is the elegant comedy by Francesca Archibugi Il nome del figlio [+see also:
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150 screens will show the French Minuscule – Valley of the Lost Ants [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)