Let yourself go: the comedy starring Toni Servillo set in the Ghetto

Let yourself go: the comedy starring Toni Servillo set in the Ghetto

From today to the cinema the anticipated film Let yourself go, the comedy by Francesco Amato starring Toni Servillo.

The wait seems to have been well rewarded. Let yourself go is a movie that makes you laugh "with class."

He writes the director, that "Let yourself go ..... born from the desire to make a brilliant film about the clash mind / body".

In this sense it is an Italian comedy but not provincial. After all is the same director to declare his references "The Billie Wilder and Woody Allen films and the songs of Duke Ellington inspired us. But show us the way were the writings, autobiography and letters by Groucho Marx, master of not taking herself too seriously. "

It is the first time that Sorvillo competes with the comedy genre in cinema.

Servillo plays a psychoanalyst jew, Elia Venezia. Says Sorvillo "Francesco Amato and Francesco Bruni on the screenplay I have cut out the role tailored with certain characteristics of pedantry, obsessiveness, or bored I find myself pretty well"

He adds, "I'm glad I made this film in so sad times ...... two hours for a film that does not distract you from reality, but you relax, are a moment of civilization "(The Republic).

Synopsis

A good analyst must remain impervious to the emotions of his patients. But in the case of Elia, the jew analyst played by Toni Servillo, over the years his clearness is became indifference and his detachment boredom  Hieratic and severe, with a sense of humor witty and merciless, Elia keeps everyone at a safe distance. Even his former wife Joan (Carla Signoris). Who lives in the apartment opposite, and with whom continues to share the laundry and some evening at the opera house. A life stingy of emotions, that Elijah sublimates eating sweets secretly and in large quantities. One day into his life breaks a novelty: he has a mild illness, is forced to go on a diet and join a gym. And so enters his life Claudia (Veronica Echegui, already appreciated in the international series Fortitude). Claudia is a funny and eccentric personal trainer with the cult of the body. She has an innate ability to drag in her mess anyone who happens to meet.

Director

Director, documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, Francesco Amato is the third feature after What am I doing here! (2006) and Cosimo and Nicole (2011) which won "Italian Perspectives" at the Rome Film Festival 2012, and other awards in Italy and abroad.

Cast

The main performers, along with Toni Servillo, are Verónica Echegui, Carla Signoris and Luca Marinelli.

With them: Pietro Sermonti, Carlo De Ruggieri, Valentina Carnelutti, Giulio Beranek, Vincenzo Nemolato, Odette Adado, Antonio Petrocelli, Glen Blackhall, Paolo Graziosi and Giacomo Poretti.

Credits

Story and Screenplay: Francesco Bruni, Davide Lantieri, Francesco Amato.

Assistant director: Arianna Dell'Arti. Production Director: Federico Santangelo.

Casting Director: Chiara Natalucci (U.I.C.D.). Sound: Gianluca Costamagna.

Costumes: Mariano Tufano. Set Design: Emita Frigato. Photography: Vladan Radovic (MAH). Editing: Luigi Mearelli. Music: Andrea Farri. General Organizer: Francesco Tatò. Chief Manufacturing: Serena Sostegni. Executive Producer: Antonella Iovino.

Chief Producer: Francesca Longardi. Producers: Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz. Produced by Cattleya with Rai Cinema. Distributed by 01 Distribution.

Location

The film is set in Rome in the Jewish Quarter of the Ghetto.

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