Blessed Madness

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Blessed Madness
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Italian Benedetta follia
Directed by Carlo Verdone
Written byCarlo Verdone
Nicola Guaglianone
Menotti
Produced by Aurelio De Laurentiis
Luigi De Laurentiis
StarringCarlo Verdone
Ilenia Pastorelli
Maria Pia Calzone
Lucrezia Lante della Rovere
Cinematography Arnaldo Catinari
Edited byPietro Morana
Music byMichele Braga
Distributed by Filmauro
Release date
  • 11 January 2018 (2018-01-11)(Italy)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Blessed Madness (Italian : Benedetta follia) is a 2018 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Verdone. [1] [2]

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Plot

Guglielmo and Lidia have been married for twenty-five years; on the day of their anniversary, Lidia confesses to her husband that she has been cheating on him for a year with Guglielmo's order. Having lost his wife and sales assistant, the man offers the job to Luna, a Roman girl with money problems. After a troubled start, Guglielmo and Luna manage to enter into symbiosis, both at work and in private life, to the point that she helps him find a new partner.

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References

  1. "Carlo Verdone starts filming 'Blessed Madness'". Cinecittà News. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  2. "Blessed Madness (2018)". Cineuropa. Retrieved 16 July 2020.