Maddalena Maggi Movies
- 1999
- NR
In this comedy of errors from Italy, Stefano (Luca Bizzarri) is a 30-year-old businessman with a wife, a child, and a lot of second thoughts about the direction that his life has taken. One day, Stefano discovers that his bank has made an error in his favor, and 6 billion lire have ended up in his bank account. Suddenly wealthy, Stefano uses the money to keep his wife Lisa (Luciana Littizzetto) happy with a variety of expensive gifts; he tells her that he's being sent away on business, when he's actually headed to Bologna, where he grew up, and where he now enjoys nostalgic reveries reliving the pleasures of his youth. Stefano also finds some romance on the side with Bolognese beauty Antonia (Maddalena Maggi), who believes Stefano's story that he's an immigrant from Albania. However, Antonia pressures Stefano into getting married, and he finds it's a full time job keeping both Lisa and Antonia happy while making sure they don't know of the other's existence. Director Lucio Pellegrini, screenwriter Fabio Bonifacci, and much of the cast of E Allora Mambo first gained popularity in Italy for their work on the popular television comedy series Ciro. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Luca Bizzarri, Paolo Kessisoglu, (more)
- 1999
- NR
A woman makes the painful discovery that her family is not all that she believed it to be in the drama L'Ospite/The Guest. Giulia (Elodie Treccani) works for her father's law film and still lives in her parents' luxurious home. However, she soon realizes the young man from Thailand who is their new houseguest is not just a family friend -- he is Guilia's mother's lover, and almost half her age. Father, however, has an even bigger secret -- he's been having an affair with a man young enough to be his son. L'Ospite/The Guest was the feature debut from director Alessandro Colizzi and was shown at in the Forum section of the 1999 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elodie Treccani, Anita Zagria, (more)
