L'uomo perfetto

I restrain myself as much as I can from watching romantic movie, but I was forced by my better half to start watching it. And I loved it! It has that special italian dolce vita taste, and all through the movie, you adore the way character walk, talk, do simple things. Not only is italian language a music to the ears, but everybody wear fantastic clothes and behaves cool. I was amazed that such movies even exist, because in every detail, every second of the movie, you see the life as it should be-love in the center of life!

I have to go away now, to look for other movies from the same director, with the same actors...:)

Lucia has always been in love with her best friend's boyfriend, Paolo. When they announce the engagement, she pays a poor and spunky actor and transforms him into the perfect man in order to seduce her friend and break the engagement, but things don't go exactly in the way she wanted... In the latest years a lot of Italian director tried to make decent comedies but no one succeed. It took Marco Ponti's script and Luca Lucini's fresh directing to have finally something good. The story is not that original, but the dialogs are funny and fresh, the acting in very good and finally Milan is not seen as the the big city where everybody always run to arrive in time.

A little Italian experiment that works purely on an experimental way. The script is a rehash of a million other movies, from Lubitch to Billy Wilder, from Blake Edwards to whoever you care to mention. The farce takes place in Italy, we know that because the characters speak Italian but that's about it. This is an Italian comedy that lives abroad. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but the lack of original turns and surprises, is. The film performed very nicely at the Italian box office and I believe that the merit of that success rests on the shoulders of a new face, Riccardo Scamarcio. He has a darkness for great tragedies and a lightness for romantic, sensual melodramas. He has an alluring presence and when you're with him you're enjoying every predictable moment. I miss Dino Risi and Mario Monicelli but as experiments go, this one shows promise.

An excellent script, performances and direction make this a vastly better crafted, believable and more entertaining movie than most romantic comedies. Even the lesser characters, like the poor divorced Simone, are convincingly and charmingly portrayed.

Had this been a US release, in English and with distribution monopolies on its side, it would be at least as famous as all the Colin Firth/Renee Zellweger/Julia Roberts equivalents. Because it really is a surprisingly good film of its genre.

Well done.