Alessandro Benvenuti Movies
- 2001
Two couples straying from fidelity find themselves looking in the same direction in this comedy from Italy. Filippo (Alessandro Benvenuti) and Anna (Elena Sofia Ricci) are a married couple looking to spice up their relationship, and one night while they're drinking they spot Giulia (Micaela Ramazzotti), an attractive young woman. Filippo and Anna have never had a ménage à trois, but they're game to give it a try, and attempt to persuade Giulia to join them. However, Giulia is already making another marriage more interesting; she has been having an affair with Ugo (Ricky Tognazzi), who is not getting along with his wife Marcella (Giuppy Izzo). While Commedia Sexy does feature brief nudity, most of the sex is talked about rather than shown. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alessandro Benvenuti, Elena Sofia Ricci, (more)
- 1998
This Italian comedy focuses on a hapless half-dozen actors once exploited by their friend Alessio (Alessandro Benvenuti) who used their experiences in his hit play, My Dearest Friends. However, since they weren't cast in the production, they didn't share in the play's success, and friendship quickly turned to hate. Now, 15 years later, the impoverished six arrive at a medieval castle where they've been invited by Alessio, who explains that he would like to make amends with a new performance in which they will portray themselves. As rehearsals get underway, so do various plans for revenge. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alessandro Benvenuti, Eva Robin's, (more)
- 1996
Italy's favorite dysfunctional family returns to their small-town home in Tuscany to mourn the passing of Adele, who watches over the mournful festivities as the family pays their respects and prepares for her funeral. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1996
The discovery of an aborted fetus in a WW II-era Tuscan town nearly overloads the gossip mill in this black Italian comedy that is based on a play by director/screenwriter Ugo Chiti. The tale begins in 1939 just before Mussolini-controlled Italy entered the war. The fetus is unfortunately discovered on the eve of a visit by the great dictator. Wanting no trouble, the town's fascist secretary attempts a cover-up that is promptly blown with the unexpected late-night arrival of a party leader. He convinces the secretary to quickly find a scapegoat for the alleged crime. To find one, the secretary enlists the aid of his mistress. They choose the daughter of the town tart, but before they can convict her, she is examined by the town doctor whose findings set the stage for tragedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1995
A neurotic and unhappily married man falls in love with his transvestite cousin in this quirky Italian comedy. Leo is an obsessive and unhappy man. He is married to Simona and the two are miserable. He suffers many psychosomatic ailments and real phobias, such as an allergic reaction to cheese fumes, and a dread of being locked in a bathroom. When accidently does lock himself in a public bathroom, he becomes hysterical until he is rescued by a class call-girl Giulia. She had been watching him from a distance. She takes the unconscious Leo home. When Leo awakens he discovers that Giulia is really his cousin and former playmate Gioulio who admits to always having loved Leo. Initially Leo rejects Giulia's new life style and shrugs her off as a confused man, but gradually he comes to love her in every way. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1995
Poor Ivo is anything but a genius, an idiot savant with a phenomenal ability with numbers and abstract figures, yes, but definitely not a genius. An orphan since childhood, he has spent most of his life in an institution. By the time he is finally released, Ivo is a grown man. He returns to his home village and finds it empty. Still he decides to stay. Bored, he begins painting complex black and white puzzles all over the town. Circumstance eventually leads him to fall in love and end up living in a sort of communal half-way house. This gentle Italian comedy chronicles his exploits there. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1994
This Italian comedy examines the emotional and sexual dynamics of several troubled couples. The stage is set at an aged Italian rural villa. Luca and Mara's two girls are making their first Communion, and many relatives have come to watch. Family trouble brews. Luca is planning to leave Mara and the kids for a sexy actress. Mara does not want him to go. Mara's two fluff-headed sisters are also in turmoil. Sister Claudia is involved with a married guy, while Giusy's hypochondria is destroying her love life. Maurizio and Serena, Luca's nymphomaniacal sister, are the only happy couple in the story. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ricky Tognazzi, Barbara de Rossi, (more)
- 1991
For many years, the Italian Communist party had a significant cachet as one of the few such organizations to survive for many decades largely independent of the influence of China and Russia's versions of communism. It had loyal and even fervent support from people in all walks of Italian life. However, times change, and after the end of the Cold War, the party was renamed the "Democratic Left" and began espousing considerably more centrist policies. This film takes place at a large rally for the newly reorganized party, where old and new feuds and resentments color the interactions of the many types of people present. In particular, a visiting politician encounters the harsh feelings of a young-ish woman who is also an old-guard leftist who deeply resents the changes in the party's direction. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alessandro Benvenuti, Athina Cenci, (more)
- 1988
In this very Italian comedy, the romantic lives of a group of 35 year old former high-school chums go through a series of dramatic changes in the course of a single evening at a reunion dinner party. The film's director Carlo Verdone plays Piero, a schoolteacher who has a frustrating relationship with his nagging wife and a tentative one with his student, Cristina (Natasha Hovey). Things gets complicated for Piero when both show up at the dinner. Hostess Federica (Nancy Brilli makes no secret of the fact that she's a rich man's mistress, hence the stunning villa where the party is held. Among the guests are a sleazy, third rate entertainer (Christian De Sica), a happily unwed mother (Luisa Maneri) and a psychologist forced to listen to everyone's problems (Athena Cenci). ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Carlo Verdone, Nancy Brilli, (more)
- 1987
When tough-minded slum dweller Claudio Scanna Claudio Amendola is drafted into the Italian Army for his obligatory one-year tour of service, he hardly expects to have to serve the entire year on latrine duty. However, that's just what happens in this exposé of injustices of the draft system. Claudio has inadvertently humiliated his lieutenant, a petty and small-minded man who cannot abide the knowledge that Claudio is definitely a better man than he is. Before the year is out, though, they will have a definitive confrontation. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Claudio Amendola, Massimo Dapporto, (more)
- 1986
In this typical teen comedy with all the elements of humor and romance that pander to the younger set, first-time director Franco Amurri looks at the trials and tribulations of a young man who cannot find a job (Jerry Cala). After he is rejected right and left, the just-graduated teen finally finds work with the "Pony Express," a privatized mail service that helps fill in the chinks in Italy's national postal system. He hotrods around town on a motor scooter he bought with purloined funds (he stole a young woman's purse), and he is intrigued by a dashing, wealthy young woman who goes about in a red riding outfit. The question is how will Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf get together? ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jerry Calà, Isabella Ferrari, (more)
- 1993
- R
In this comedy, Franco (Alessandro Benvenuti) and his brother Fabio (Enrico Montessano) are the fortunate heirs of a thriving Tuscan textile business formerly owned by their father. These men are united by two things: their common parentage, and a relentless determination to get the better of one another. Franco is much smoother, a university-educated man, while Fabio got his education on the streets. Their ever-escalating shenanigans, designed to inconvenience the other and eventually bilk them out of their share in the business, come to a crescendo in a fistfight between the two men. They batter each other so thoroughly that they forget what they were fighting about. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Enrico Montesano, Alessandro Benvenuti, (more)
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