Denti

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Denti
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Directed by Gabriele Salvatores
Cinematography Italo Petriccione
Music by Teho Teardo
Eraldo Bernocchi
Federico De Robertis
Release date
  • 2000 (2000)
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Denti (Teeth) is a 2000 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Domenico Starnone. [1] It entered the competition at the 57th Venice International Film Festival. [2] [3]

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Plot

Antonio has always had problems with his incisors: enormous and therefore embarrassing. During a quarrel Mara, the woman for whom he left his wife and two children and of whom he is extremely jealous, throws him a crystal ashtray breaking his teeth. He begins his wandering among dentists that will turn into a sort of journey in his own conscience, altered by painkillers, by quarrels with Mara and by memories and ghosts that resurface. [4]

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References

  1. Roberto Chiti; Enrico Lancia; Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film. Gremese Editore, 2002.
  2. Claudia Mormoglione (1 September 2000). "Tra trapani e sangue Salvatores convince a metà". la re. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  3. Paolo Baratta (10 September 2000). "VENEZIA il Leone dell'IRAN". La Stampa . p. 12.
  4. "Denti (2000)".