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Cinema, "Lasciati Andare" also sold in US and Canada

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Cinema,

(April 4, 2017) Italian cinema more and more to the conquest of foreign markets. RAI Com sold in eight countries the rights of the new comedy by Francesco Amato "Lasciati Andare", which will be in Italian cinemas on April 13. The film, which stars an unprecedented Toni Servillo, will be launched in the US and Canada, Australia, Greece, Israel, Spain, Taiwan and Turkey. And not just that. Negotiations are under way with China and Latin America. In "Lasciati Andare" Servillo plays Elia, a psychoanalyst who, over the years, has gradually detached from the profession to fall back into boredom and indifference. Unhelpful and mercilessly witty, Elia keeps everyone at a distance, including his ex-wife Giovanna who lives in the apartment next to his, and that still does the laundry for him and occasionally go to the theater with him. An emotionally stingy life, in short, that Elia sublimates eating sweets until one day, due to a mild illness, is forced to go on a diet and join a gym. Here he will meet Claudia (Veronica Echegui), eccentric personal trainer with the cult of the body, no awe for the brains out of shape as him and an innate ability to drag in her mess anyone who happens fall in her sight. (PO / red)


ABOUT / THE DIRECTOR

Francesco Amato was born in Turin in 1978. After shooting, from 2001 to 2003 in Bologna, documentaries and short films including "Figlio di Penna" (winner of the Turin Film Festival, Visioni Italiane, in competition at Cannes), attended in Rome the Experimental Cinematography Center. "Ma che ci faccio qui!" is his graduation film, the first feature film produced in the Experimental Center. Between 2011 and 2012 shoots, co-directing with Stefano Scarafia, a series of documentaries in Africa: Kenya, Ethiopia and Senegal. The works that depict the communities of Slow Food, are presented at the Berlin Film Festival, in the section Kulinarisches Kino, in the editions of 2012 and 2013. In 2011 he made "Cosimo e Nicole", produced by Cattleya, starring Riccardo Scamarcio and Clara Ponsot, which won "Italian perspectives" at the 2012 Rome Film Festival.

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