06/02/2013 - In Studio illegale, coming out tomorrow in 350 movie theatres with Warner, the actor plays an ambitious lawyer in an international law firm, who falls head over heels in love with his French colleague

Do lawyers fall in love too? Who knows. Fabio Volo, an ambitious lawyer in an international law firm, falls head over heels in love with a French colleague of his (Zoé Félix) who plays for the opposite team as he tries to conclude the acquisition of a pharmaceutical company from a Dubai multinational. Andrea/Fabio Volo’s motto is: “we lawyers found our lives on a lack of trust in others.” But this time, passion is involved.

Studio Illegale [+see also:
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film profile], directed by Umberto Riccioni Carteni, will be coming out tomorrow in 350 movie theatres with Warner (which produced Beppe Caschetto starring film by IBC Movie). The film should not just attract fans of the television host, writer and actor, but should also attract lawyers tehmselves (and there are many of those). Indeed, the film is based on the novel by the same name, written by Federico Baccomo “Duchesne”, edited by Marsilio, which sold 35,000 copies and has a blog much followed in the legal world.

With a Brad Pitt-like moustache, Fabio Volo navigates a disenchanted and cynical world which the film tries to bring to life, but the story is too weak and clichéd, and the approach is too provincial. This, despite the robust presence of Ennio Fantastichini, who drew inspiration from the lawyers in Berlusconi’s entourage to play Andrea’s boss, and the freshness of young Nicola Nocella, who plays a shy practitioner in the law firm.

"I tried to pull characters into me,” Fabio Volo says. "Like a Jedi, I used the energy that was around me to interpret him. Andrea is someone who consumes ‘sexual snacks,’ someone who has no space or time for longer relationships. I was a bit like this once. Then love arrives, and things change. Real life fills those empty gaps, and you are forced into making unforeseen decisions.”