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The manual of love (Manuale d'amore) - Carlo Verdone, Silvio Muccino, Luciana Littizzetto, Sergio Rubini, Giovanni Veronesi

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Movie propaganda

Tommasso and Guilia are falling in love.
Barbara and Marco are falling out of love.
Ornella's husband is with another love.
Goffredo has been abandoned by his love.

A box office smash in Italy, The manual of love (Manuale d'amore) is a charming, bitter-sweet comedy about the mysterious nature of love. The ups and downs of relationships are chronicled through four intertwining episodes, each one played out by a different couple. The innocent, dreamlike stage of falling in love; the heart-wrenching phase of relationship crisis; the impulsive and frenetic epiphany of betrayal; and the lonesome, tragic free-fall of being abandoned. The stories are both everyday and extraordinary, sweet and moving, romantic and funny. A refreshingly modern portrayal of love in all its incarnations.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film Italy romance bitter-sweet love relationship couple betrayal romantic crisis drama comedy Italian

Persons of interest

Carlo Verdone .... Goffredo
Luciana Littizzetto .... Ornella
Silvio Muccino .... Tommasso
Sergio Rubini .... Marco
Margherita Buy .... Barbara
Jasmine Trinca .... Giulia
Rodolfo Corsato .... Alberto Marchese
Dino Abbrescia .... Gabriele
Dario Bandiera .... Piero
Luis Molteni .... Goffredo's lawyer
Sabrina Impacciatore .... Luciana
Anita Caprioli .... Livia
Francesco Mandelli .... Dante
Vincenzo Cerami .... Storywriter
Ugo Chiti .... Screenwriter
Giovanni Veronesi .... Screenwriter
Giovanni Veronesi .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

The manual of love (Manuale d'amore) official movie site
The manual of love (Manuale d'amore) film production notes (.rtf)
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Awards and film festivals:

David di Donatello Film Festival 2005: Won: Best Supporting Actor (Carlo Verdone), Best Supporting Actress (Margherita Buy); Nominated: Best Cinematography (Giovanni Canevari), Best Costume Design (Gemma Mascagni), Best Editing (Claudio Di Mauro), Best Film (Aurelio De Laurentiis, Giovanni Veronesi), Best Music (Paolo Buonvino), Best Music, Original Song (Paolo buonvino), Best Producer (Aurelio De Laurentiis), Best Screenplay (Ugo Chiti, Giovanni Veronesi), Best Sound (Gaetano Carito, Pierpaolo Merafino), Best Supporting Actor (Silvio Muccino)

NB: Italian language dialogue with English language subtitles
Studios and distributors:

Palace Films

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

The manual of love is a nice little Italian film with cute boys and girls, funny men and women, sweet boyfriends and girlfriends and tragic husbands and wives. It's delightful, it's funny, it's lovely. Enjoy it.

(For some reason I don't have much to say about The manual of love (Manuale d'amore). This is partly because the film is a little bland but mostly because I recently saw Brokeback Mountain and it has put me right off love, romance and relationships. The bastards.)