The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.


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Film Cast:
Carla Bernaschi: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Dino Ossola: Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Giovanni Bernaschi: Fabrizio Gifuni
Roberta: Valeria Golino
Donato, il professor Russomanno: Luigi Lo Cascio
Serena Ossola: Matilde Gioli
Massimiliano Bernaschi: Guglielmo Pinelli
La signora Pierret: Isabelle Tanakil
ispettore: Bebo Storti
Luca Ambrosini: Giovanni Anzaldo
Giampi: Gigio Alberti
Adriana Crosetti: Silvia Cohen
l’assessore: Alessandro Betti
Rosanna Bertoncelli, critica teatrale: Federica Fracassi
Signora Ester: Pia Engleberth
zio Davide: Paolo Pierobon
Fabrizio, il ciclista: Gianluca Di Lauro
ean Louis, l’assistente di Bernaschi: Michael Sart
Francesco Alberici: Alessandro Milzoni
Marie Rose Bertolazzi: Anna Lazzeri
Don Alberto, il preside: Luca Toracca
Amico di Bernaschi: Fulvio Milani
Capo Cameriere: Saman Anthony
Amico e Socio di Bernaschi: Stefano Fiorentino
Il signor De Marchis: Franco Maino
Film Crew:
Stunt Coordinator: Franco Maria Salamon
Director of Photography: Jérôme Alméras
Screenplay: Francesco Bruni
Screenplay: Francesco Piccolo
Director: Paolo Virzì
Second Assistant Director: Corrado Fortuna
Original Music Composer: Carlo Virzì
Producer: Fabrizio Donvito
Sound Editor: Daniela Bassani
Producer: Marco Cohen
Co-Producer: Philippe Gompel
Associate Producer: Lorenzo Gangarossa
Producer: Benedetto Habib
Post Production Coordinator: Monica Verzolini
Editor: Cecilia Zanuso
Sound: Roberto Mozzarelli
Costume Design: Bettina Pontiggia
Line Producer: Alessandro Mascheroni
Camera Operator: Guido Michelotti
Gaffer: Xavier Cholet
Co-Producer: Birgit Kemner
Special Effects Coordinator: Franco Galiano
Makeup Department Head: Caroline Philiponnat
Production Design: Mauro Radaelli
Production Manager: Alessandro Manni
Novel: Stephen Amidon
Co-Producer: Paolo Del Brocco
First Assistant Director: Miguel Lombardi
Second Assistant Director: Elena Casnati
Second Assistant Director: Eugenio di Fraia
Production Coordinator: Margherita Di Tullio
Unit Production Manager: Alberto Monte
Assistant Camera: Giulio Innocenti
Key Grip: Luigi Rocchetti
Script Supervisor: Giulia Contino
Location Manager: Sergio De Vidovich
Hair Department Head: Stéphane Desmarez
Production Coordinator: Micol Lupi
Production Secretary: Michele Priano
Assistant Camera: Karine Arlot
Boom Operator: Emanuele Chiappa
Set Decoration: Emanuela Colombo
Movie Reviews:
Reno: Lately I have been watching lots of movies from the book adaptation and here it comes another one. This time an English language novel transformed into an Italian movie. But what I heard is that a few changes were made to bring the Italian flavor. Well, what could I say more, if you know the director you will say he’s the right person to make it happen and he did excellently. Recruited the best cast and extracted best out of them.

The story of the two families narrated in the different streams when a cyclist got hit by a car on the Christmas eve. So the question has been asked, how did it happen? And who did it? The characters from two families begin to expose their role on that accident night revealing who did what. Dino, a realtor sees an opportunity to get into a big earning league so he decides to invest a large amount on it. Followed by the recession he has to face the reality of business that puts his life on a stake. Carla, the wife of a multimillionaire gives a financial support for the struggling company. Later she has to let it go when her husband’s business begins to fall apart. Serena, the daughter of Dino and Massimiliano, son of Carla are the close friends. Their story follows where one of them finds their true love and another one get into sadness for some reason. When all these three episodes concludes the final chapter begins to unveil the truth with a twist.
‘‘I know it does not look much like you,
I tend to make things uglier.’’
The story was told in layers which were divided into the four chapters. The story that happened between the particular timeline was repeated again and again with another character’s perspective and with different camera angles till truth reveals in the final chapter. As it’s still developing the opening was confusing which was the first chapter. Without holding-up in development, it straight goes with the main intention of the theme. If you pass that then the following segments interest you to make you guess the possibilities the suspense it hold. Kind of impossible to predict because of the introduction of the related characters to the particular incident consumed by the three quarters of the film. Which mean twist comes at the latter part which was really a good one. Each character that comes in the different episodes were incredible. Like, for a moment it was unhooked from the rest and centralizes that specific story stream, but the common event holds the story all together. I liked all the main characters, but the character Serena steals the final show. The role who played it was a new face and I kind see a great career ahead of her. (God, she’s kind of attractive, hope its not me the only one to say that.) This was one of the recent best neo-noir. If somebody asks, I definitely recommend it.
8/10