Notes of Love
(La parola amore esiste)
Directed by Mimmo Calopresti

Girlfriends talking about love and loss, cry on each others shoulders and continue their search for Mr. Right... Where oh where can he be?
Angela (Valeria Bruni Tedeshi) is such a woman, a neurotic, spoiled brat in her early 30's. We see her with her analyst describing her phobias of colors, numbers and the rules she has created to deal with them. She then denigrates the therapist when his advice is not to her liking. She doesn't have to work, being from a wealthy family, and seems to wander aimlessly through life...
On the other hand we have Fabrizio (Bentivoglio) a cellist, music teacher and loving father and a bit absent minded. He and his daughter have a great relationship: he occasionally asks his teenage daughter's advice on women and goes to a rock concert to see her new boyfriend play guitar. He's a bit absent minded, jovial, a bit naive, childlike and a little bit lonely. When he starts finding love poems left under his door, he becomes intrigued...
In any case I found Angela so troubled, spoiled, annoying and unsympathetic that I had less than no interest in what she did... and she seemed way too immature and frightened of life to REALLY want or succeed in having a relationship... She doesn't seem to know who she is and "Mr.Right" seeming somewhat desperate doesn't make this any more believable.
I would have run the other way... Gérard Despardieu has a cameo in a good but mostly wasted performance.

 

Reviewed by Eric Michel, FilmCities

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Country: Italy
Year: 1998
Running Time: 87 Min.

Cast
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Gérard Depardieu