Se fossi in te

Too normal, too obvious, certainly unnecessary. It's a pity for the actors. All of them are remarquable.

But the lack of a good plot, and the direction...

Good luck to everybody (also the spectators) for their next film.

This is the kind of film that can easily be extremely boring, common and not original. People magically exchanging bodies with each other. Pff, please !

But Se Fossi in Te is actually a very pleasant comedy, that is original enough (despite the theme and the plot), and the actors make it right too. The humor is fine, and good laughters just happen ! This film is also pleasant because the viewer can feel that it is some kind of buddy movie, that the actors appreciate and have known each other for a while (most of them featured the TV show "Mai Dire Goal" for a couple of seasons). Thumbs up !

This is an Italian identity-swapping film from 10 years ago, which emanates that this comedic sub-genre never cease, popping up into my mind is the most recent Hollywood one called THE CHANGE-UP (2011), stars Ryan Reynolds and Jason Batesman. But this Italian one is a quantitatively upgraded version as it mingles with 3 persons' turmoils of their lives, and interweaving with 3 females whom they cannot eschew from their pristine life.

I have some trouble understanding the dialogues since there was not subtitles for it and my Italian level is still on the verge of B1 (which is thought-provoking by stark contrast with a Chinese film, in which most of them are too taciturn to let languages steal the thunder). Thus please forgive me if my review could be a trifle partisan. The film itself is merely satisfying and entertaining in a foreseeable scale, the performance is sterile but benevolent, three male leaders, Fabio De Luigi, Gioele Dix and Emilio Solfrizzi carries their characters with ease and a hackneyed happy-ending is implausibly welcome.

A petty mention, the sci-fi fraction (the process of changing identities), which literally lasts only 10 seconds maximum, is trashy and deceitfully naive. Anyway, it one has to fuss about that, he must be a helpless perfectionist, whom I don't mean to be in any circumstances.

This film is director/writer Giulio Manfredonia's debut feature film, whose later work SI PUO' FARE (2008) had been selected as a contestant in The 12th Shanghai Film Festival in 2009, which I feel more intrigued to watch (in spite of the fact that I generally distrust the festival's quality).

A self-contained movie, that has all you can desire to please a tender summer night. Funny, intelligent, graceful. Standard acting, clever dialogues, no futile show-offs. You will love the six characters portrayed in the movie and will love to be accompanied by them during less than two hours. A nice, nice movie.