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Silvio Muccino is a life coach in Le leggi del desiderio

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- Third direction project for Muccino jr, for a Medusa and Lotus production. Also coming to cinemas Maraviglioso Boccaccio by the Taviani brothers

Silvio Muccino is a life coach in Le leggi del desiderio
Nicole Grimaudo and Silvio Muccino in Le leggi del desiderio

“We were writing a romantic comedy, but I missed the link with the present. I found it thanks to the Internet: that’s where I found the American life coach Anthony Robbins’ videos. He was someone who had never been portrayed in our cinema. But where does the mask end and the man begin?” This is what Silvio Muccino wonders in his new movie Le leggi del desiderio [+see also:
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(lit. The Law of Desire)
, written (with Carla Vangelista), directed by and starring him as the motivational trainer Giovanni Canton, alongside Nicole Grimaudo, Carla Signoris and Maurizio Mattioli (read the news). Muccino jr’s third movie as a director (another upcoming release is the new movie by his brother Gabriele, Fathers and Daughters) starts in fact as an exploration of a modern trend (“The life coach tells you how to dress, what to eat, what to buy. In times of crisis, people need someone to show them the way. They used to be called Shamans, today their realm is the internet”) and evolves like a classic romantic comedy, complete with “ugly ducklings” becoming swans and salvation from a cynical life through love, because “behind every superhero mask, emotions are what really count”. In 340 theatres from today with Medusa.

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Today is also a day for Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (read the interview) who return to film, after Caesar Must Die [+see also:
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, with Maraviglioso Boccaccio [+see also:
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in which they re-interpret five novellas by Decameron at a time when, claims Paolo, “the plague has returned in the form of men dressed in black who cut off heads, waves eight metres high that swallow up immigrants and the suffering of the unemployed youth”; in 92 theatres with Teodora Film. The set of five Italian movies released this Thursday is completed with, Patria [+see also:
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by Felice Farina (selected at Venice Days 2014 - review and video interview - Istituto Luce-Cinecittà distribution), the documentary Dancing with Maria [+see also:
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interview: Ivan Gergolet
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by Ivan Gergolet (distr. Exit Media) about Argentine dancer Maria Fux and her dance therapy, screened at Critics’ Week at the last Venice Film Festival and co-produced with Argentina and Slovenia; and The Repairman [+see also:
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, Paolo Mitton’s first work (distr. Cineama - Slow Cinema) with as its protagonist a failed and quirky engineer who fixes everything and shuns modernity, selected at the 31st Turin FF and co-produced with the United Kingdom. 

In other news this week: the spy story Kingsman: Secret Service [+see also:
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with Colin Firth (Great Britain, USA; Fox in 300 theatres), the Bulgarian-Spanish movie Automata [+see also:
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with Antonio Banderas (Eagle in 130 theatres) and the American titles Motel (Barter on 50 screens), The Spongebob Movie: Sponge out of Water (Universal in 480 theatres) and Oscar nominated Inherent Vice (Warner in 220 theatres).

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(Translated from Italian)

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