Giacomo Ciarrapico and Luca Vendruscolo ready to release their new surreal comedy Il Ministero dell’Amore
- Starring Pif, Corrado Guzzanti, Pietro Sermonti and Angela Finocchiaro, the new movie written and directed by the creators of Boris will soon be released on Prime Video
Il Ministero dell’Amore, the new film written and directed by Giacomo Ciarrapico and Luca Vendruscolo, will soon be dropping all over the world on Prime Video. The long-awaited filmmaking return of the directors behind Boris [+see also:
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Based on Giacomo Ciarrapico’s stage play Stare meglio oggi, Il Ministero dell’Amore stars Pif (The Mafia Only Kills in Summer [+see also:
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Aldo (Pif) is a brilliant parliamentary reporter who spends his days immersed in the chaos of Roman politics, oblivious to the fact that a very real crisis is about to explode inside of his person, because a singular Council of Ministers governs each and every one of his decisions by way of emotional decrees and spiritual laws. When his romantic relationship with Claudia (Mastronardi) starts to veer off-track, the “Government of Aldo” plunges into its biggest crisis yet.
Guzzanti plays the Chairman of the Board, Sermonti is the Minister for Love, and Finocchiaro - the idealist in the film who learns that being part of the opposition was a far easier state of affairs - belongs to the Beautiful Person party. It’s inevitably reminiscent of Inside Out and the more recent movie Madly [+see also:
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film profile]. “It’s quite spectacular exploring everything that happens inside of us”, Giacomo Ciarrapico enthused yesterday in Rome, on the occasion of Prime Video Presents Italy, an event presenting new Italian productions arriving onto the platform. “Years ago, I imagined an entire country with a government, an opposition and secret services, then we thought of all the compromises politics requires when you’re actually elected to power”, he explained. “Governing is a complicated affair, and governing ourselves means wavering between our yearning for the ideal and just patching things up every now and again. So when our protagonist’s partner leaves him, elections are organised, which the Suicide and Guilt parties also take part in, among others factions”. And there’ll be no shortage of emotional referendums in the movie either, not least a “Cinzia Exit”, in what’s being described as a surreal comedy revolving around power games.
We’ll see a few familiar faces from Boris in the cast, including Carlo De Ruggieri, Massimo De Lorenzo and Ninni Bruschetta, as well as Dharma Mangia Woods, Federico Cesari, Leonardo Lidi, Cristina Pellegrino, Daniele Natali, Giampiero Judica, Lucio Patanè, Thomas Trabacchi, Fabio Balsamo and Andrea Pennacchi.
(Translated from Italian)
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