02/10/2014 - Released this Thursday also La trattativa (dealings) by Sabina Guzzanti and Take Five, a year after its debut at the Rome Film Festival

A romantic comedy, a metropolitan noir, a docu-fiction and a gangster movie: four very different Italian movies are released this week in Italian cinemas. Fratelli unici [+see also:
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Perez [+see also:
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Coming directly from Venice is La trattativa [+see also:
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On the European (non-Italian) releases front, worth noting are the romantic drama A Promise [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)