Leonardo Pieraccioni Movies
- 2005
Leonardo Pieraccioni's romantic comedy I Love You In Every Language in the World stars the director as Gilberto, a gym teacher who meets Margherita (Marjo Berasategui) when they both become uncomfortable at a sexually charged party. The two spark, but she is the mother of one of his students, a student who has her own designs on the teacher. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leonardo Pieraccioni, Giorgio Panariello, (more)
- 1999
Noted Italian filmmaker Leonardo Pieraccioni follows up on his cowboy epic My West (1998) with this good-natured fable about the fleeting and shallow nature of fame. Pure-hearted carpenter and amateur novelist Arturo (Pieraccioni) stumbles into fame after his collection of children's stories, entitled "The Fish in Love" finds its way onto the lap of a bigwig publisher (Patrizia Loreti). The book is a phenomenal international success, and soon Arturo is swept up in one launch party after another. Eventually, Arturo tires of the high life and decides to spend the night in the relative quiet of his hotel room. A hotel snafu has him sharing a suite with the drop-dead gorgeous Matilde (Yamilia Diaz), and Arturo finds himself in an unexpected romance. The next day, when he learns that his love is in fact married, he retires from the high-rolling lifestyle to live and work in a tranquil mountain retreat. Several months later, Matilde suddenly appears on his door step with a baby in tow. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leonardo Pieraccioni, Paolo Hendel, (more)
Popular Italian comedian Leonardo Pieraccioni shfts gears to take on the traditions of the American Western in this family-focused drama. In Il Mio West, Pieraccioni plays Doc, a physician in a small town in the American West. Doc is a peaceful man opposed to hunting, ecological waste and eating meat; he heals the community's ills and lends a voice of reason when personal differences threaten to become violent. The community's peace is shattered when Doc's father, Johnny Lowen (Harvey Keitel) comes home, 20 years after he abandoned his family. As one might expect, Doc has issues with his father, and it doesn't help that Dad was a famous gunslinger whose presence attracts Jack Sikora (David Bowie), an vicious outlaw who has sworn to kill Johnny. Il Mio West was filmmed on location in the Tuscan mountains; in the original Italian language version, Keitel's voice was dubbed by Giancarlo Giannini. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leonardo Pieraccioni, Harvey Keitel, (more)
- 1997
Former cabaret performer Leonardo Pieraccioni (The Cyclone) directed, co-scripted (with Giovanni Veronesi), and stars in this popular Italian film, given the widest opening release in Italian film history. Ottone (Pieraccioni) and beautiful Lorenza (Claudia Gerini) are pet-store partners. He loses his lover to a butcher and moves in with his friend Barbara (Barbara Enrichi). At the same time, he courts secretly married Argentine heiress Luna (Vanessa Lorenzo), who is simply toying with the unsuspecting Ottone. Ottone's pal Germano (Massimo Ceccherini), once struck by lightning, survived because of his rubber Spiderman boots. Germano and Ottone both yearn for true love, but problems always arise. In the Maldives, Ottone seeks out a psychoanalyst (Luigi Petrucci) in hopes of gaining some understanding of his confused relationships with the opposite sex. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leonardo Pieraccioni, Vanessa Lorenzo, (more)
- 1996
Four roommates in their 30s hesitate to take the big plunge and take the final exams that would grant them their degrees. This episodic, Italian ensemble comedy explain each of their reasons. The recently divorced Leonardo is still in love with the beautiful sister of Rocco, who nurses a broken heart after his fiancee jilts him. Bruno is just hanging around waiting to inherit his wife's business. Pino dreams of becoming a comedian. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1996
In this gentle Italian comedy, a troupe of flamenco dancers has been stranded in a town in rural Tuscany. When a stolid wine-growing family agrees to give them accommodations, the family members' lives of dull endurance are transformed as they are affected the romance, excitement and sensuality of their guests. The presence of the dancers causes quite a stir among the villagers as well. Levante (Leonardo Pieraccioni) lives with his father and sister in the family vineyard, and is enamored by the exotic charms of flamenco-dancer Caterina (Lorena Forteza). She is interested in him as well. Levante's family, and Caterina's dance troupe join forces in opposing their union, but all turns out well in the end. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1993
- R
Marco (Claudio Bigagli) is an insurance adjuster who must travel all over Tuscany in order to investigate and settle claims put through by his firm's various branches. This brings in a tidy sum of money, and he has every reason to expect that he will continue to prosper in his work. He manages quite successfully to organize every event in his own life, but he can't manage the lives of others. His tidy and reasonably satisfying world comes unglued when his mother's extramarital affair causes dissension between her and his father. The tidiness of his life is also undone when his former girlfriend actually gets married, and his current girlfriend dumps him. Soon he is irritated even by his work, and then the real hysteria sets in. The only thing he can think to do is to opt out of having such a tidy, predictable, yuppiefied life, and this is what he does. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Claudio Bigagli, Gigio Alberti, (more)
