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Directed by | Carlo Verdone |
Written by | Francesca Marciano Carlo Verdone |
Produced by | Mario Cecchi Gori Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
Starring | Carlo Verdone Margherita Buy |
Cinematography | Danilo Desideri |
Edited by | Antonio Siciliano |
Music by | Fabio Liberatori |
Distributed by | Variety Distribution |
Release date |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Box office | $6.4 million (Italy) [1] |
Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato (Damned the Day I Met You) is a 1992 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Carlo Verdone. [2] [3] [4] The film won five David di Donatello Awards, for best screenplay, best actor, best cinematography, best editing and best supporting actress (Elisabetta Pozzi). [5] For her performance Margherita Buy won the Ciak d'oro for best actress. [5]
Bernardo, a Roman music journalist living in Milan, is dumped by his girlfriend (almost fiancé), and, extremely depressed, begins working with a therapist, Prof. Altieri. His career as a rock music critic begins to decline, and he cannot find a way to publish a book on the life secrets of Jimi Hendrix. In the meantime, he meets the neurotic Camilla, who is both a patient and a wannabe lover of Altieri's, with whom she's obsessed. From that point on, Camilla disrupts Bernardo's life, but becomes his best friend. After a huge fight, the two lose contact. They separately travel to London, where Camilla is a theatre actress and Bernardo is working on Hendrix's biography, interviewing people who might have known the rock star. They meet again, apologizing to one another, only to have their personal and professional lives disrupted again. One night, at Land's End in Cornwall, Bernardo and Camilla get intimately close, enraging Camilla's latest boyfriend (her theatre production's director), with whom she was not happy anyway. Camilla secretly sells a precious ring to fund Bernardo's interview with an important source for his book. Later on though, she messes up the recording of the interview... The ending is very romantic, unlike the ending of most of Verdone's movies.
In its second week of release, the film reached number one at the Italian box office and remained there for two weeks. [6] [7] It was the fourth highest-grossing Italian film in Italy for the year with a gross of $6.4 million and the eleventh overall. [1]
Awards | ||||
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Award | Category | Recipients and nominees | Result | |
59th David di Donatello Awards | Best Film | Carlo Verdone, Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori | Nominated | |
Best Director | Carlo Verdone | Nominated | ||
Best Script | Carlo Verdone and Francesca Marciano | Won | ||
Best Actor | Carlo Verdone | Won | ||
Best Actress | Margherita Buy | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actor | Giancarlo Dettori | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actress | Elisabetta Pozzi | Won | ||
Best Cinematography | Danilo Desideri | Won | ||
Best Editing | Antonio Siciliano | Won | ||
32nd Globi d'oro | Best Film | Carlo Verdone | Nominated | |
Best Script | Carlo Verdone and Francesca Marciano | Nominated | ||
Best Actor | Carlo Verdone | Won | ||
Best Actress | Margherita Buy | Won | ||
Best Cinematography | Danilo Desideri | Nominated | ||
7th Ciak d'oro | Best Actress | Margherita Buy | Won | |
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