Do You See Me? (film)

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Do You See Me?
Do You See Me poster (film).jpg
Italian: Scusate se esisto!
Directed by Riccardo Milani
Written byGiulia Calenda
Paola Cortellesi
Furio Andreotti
Riccardo Milani
Produced by Fulvio Lucisano
Federica Lucisano
StarringPaola Cortellesi
Raoul Bova
CinematographySaverio Guarna
Music by Andrea Guerra
Distributed byIIF
Release date
  • 20 November 2014 (2014-11-20)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Do You See Me? (Italian : Scusate se esisto!) is a 2014 Italian comedy film written and directed by Riccardo Milani and starring Paola Cortellesi and Raoul Bova. [1] [2] [3] It grossed $6,571,282 at the Italian box office. [4]

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Plot

With a brilliant career in London, Serena, an architect originally from Abruzzo, decides to return to work in Italy, in Rome. For a woman to get a job at the height of her qualification as a really good architect proves to be difficult, until she decides to pass herself as a man. So she decides to work in the redevelopment of the Corviale district.

In Rome, meanwhile, she meets Francesco, and she becomes instantly attracted to him. When she understands he is a homosexual man, the two of them become close friends and start a long lasting relationship. As he will help her pretending to be the man behind her project for the Corviale district, and doing so making the contractors produce and give a monetary value to her/his idea, she will help him coming out to his son, that he had had from a previous marriage.

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