Different from Whom? (Diverso da chi?) (2009) directed by Umberto Riccioni Carteni

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Director: Umberto Riccioni Carteni

Writer: Fabio Bonifacci

Release Date: 20 March 2009 (Italy)
January 2010 (Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA)

Genres: Comedy

Storyline: What happens when an openly gay man decides to run for mayor in a super conservative town in North Eastern Italy, using his homosexuality as his secret weapon? What would happen if during the electoral campaign, our hero falls in love with his right hand man who happens to be a ... woman? What will the voters say, the political opponents, his official companion? And what in the end will his heart say?

Awards: 2009 David Nomination as Best Actor (Migliore Attore Protagonista) to Luca Argentero, as Best Actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista) to Claudia Gerini, as Best New Director (Migliore Regista Esordiente) to Umberto Riccioni Carteni, as Best Supporting Actor (Migliore Attore non Protagonista) to Filippo Nigro, David di Donatello Awards
2009 Golden Globe as Best First Feature (Migliore Opera Prima) to Umberto Riccioni Carteni, Golden Globes, Italy
2009 Golden Globe Nomination as Best Comedy (Migliore Commedia) to Umberto Riccioni Carteni, Golden Globes, Italy
2009 Silver Ribbon Award as Best Original Story (Migliore Soggetto) to Fabio Bonifacci and Giulio Manfredonia, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Silver Ribbon Nomination as Best Producer (Migliore Produttore) to Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini and Riccardo Tozzi, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

@IMDb
@Amazon: Different From Whom? (Diverso da chi?) (2009)

 



















Cast (in credits order)
Luca Argentero ... Piero Bonutti
Claudia Gerini ... Adele Ferri
Filippo Nigro ... Remo
Antonio Catania ... Corazza
Giuseppe Cederna ... Serafini
Francesco Pannofino ... Galeazzo
Rinaldo Rocco ... Samuele

     
Remo & Piero

And to close, and totally unrelated to the above movie, please enjoy the calendar Luca Argentero did for Max, an Italian magazine, in 2004:

Comments

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

The only review I read about this movie on Amazon is very negative, arriving to say that this Italian production is homophobic. While also I found a bit too much the highlighting of the heterosexual relationship between Piero and Adele, I don't absolutely think this movie is homophobic, it's only that Piero is both bisexual and a cheating man (in Italian they call him "farfallone", and nice way to say that he tends to cheat easily on Remo). But the point is that Piero loves Remo, and even if he has an illicit relationship with Adele, when he is faced with the chance to break up with Remo and being with Adele, he has no indecision, he well know who he loves and with whom he wants to share his life not only his bed.

So no, I don't think the movie is homophobic, and I have found the romance, the gay romance, very nice. I'd have liked for the director to be a little more daring, and to show us a bit more of the physical love between Piero and Remo (that btw are both very handsome men), same as he did with Piero and Adele, but in this I have to agree with that other reviewer, this is an Italian movie, and maybe we, as Italians, are not yet ready for it. And in the end, between Piero and Adele there is plenty of sex, but between Piero and Remo there are the most romantic scene, kisses, cuddles and all, so that is nice and good.

[mister-kyiv.livejournal.com]

film is cool!

[veggieg.livejournal.com]

I think you give a great review, give the film its justice. ANd of course, the calendar is a BIG PLUS. lol

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

LOL, the calendar is an incentive to go and see the movie ;-)