The Second Wife (1998 film)

The Second Wife
The Second Wife
Directed by	Ugo Chiti
Screenplay by	Ugo Chiti ; Nicola Zavagli
Produced by	Rita Rusić ; Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Starring	Maria Grazia Cucinotta ; Lazar Ristovski
Cinematography	Raffaele Mertes
Edited by	Roberto Perpignani
Music by	Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi
Release date	1998;
Language	Italian

Last updated November 19, 2025

The Second Wife (Italian : La seconda moglie) is a 1998 Italian coming-of-age comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Ugo Chiti and starring Maria Grazia Cucinotta. It premiered at the 55th Venice International Film Festival.

Plot

Cast

Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Anna
Lazar Ristovski as Fosco
Giorgio Noè as Livio
Candida Vettori as Stella
Jessica Auriemma as Santina
Sergio Pierattini as Uncle Moreno
Stefano Abbati as Uncle Umberto
Patrizia Corti as Fernanda
Pietro Fornaciari as Sirio
Dante Daddi as Omero

Production

The film was shot in Tuscany, with principal photography starting in August 2017.^[1]

Release

The film had its world premiere at the 55th edition of the Venice Film Festival, in the Prospectives sidebar.^[2]

Reception

Variety's critic David Rooney described the film as a "technically polished" film with a "cliched story" that looks like "a comparatively chaste version of the rustic sexfests made by Tinto Brass in the 1980s".^[3] Svet Atanasov from DVD Talk favorably compared the film to Giuseppe Tornatore's Malèna and called it "a pleasant surprise" and "a very enjoyable film, one that relies on a well structured plot bringing quite a twist to the finale".^[4] Paolo Mereghetti panned the film, describing it as "a festival of banalities" that "looks like a Mulino Bianco commercial".^[5]

References

↑ "Cucinotta e il vedovo oggi sposi per Chiti". la Repubblica . 18 August 1997. p. 29.
↑ Robiony, Simonetta (31 July 1998). "Chiti: «La mia Maria Grazia tra dolcezza e pudore»". La Stampa . No. 208. p. 22.
↑ Rooney, David (5 October 1998). "The Second Wife". Variety . Retrieved 18 November 2025.
↑ Atanasov, Svet (4 July 2003). "La Seconda Moglie". DVD Talk . Retrieved 18 November 2025.
↑ Mereghetti, Paolo (2010). "La seconda moglie". Il Mereghetti 2011. Vol. 2. Baldini Castoldi Dalai. ISBN 978-88-6073-626-0.

External links

The Second Wife at IMDb

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[1] "Cucinotta e il vedovo oggi sposi per Chiti". la Repubblica . 18 August 1997. p. 29.

[2] Robiony, Simonetta (31 July 1998). "Chiti: «La mia Maria Grazia tra dolcezza e pudore»". La Stampa . No. 208. p. 22.

[3] Rooney, David (5 October 1998). "The Second Wife". Variety . Retrieved 18 November 2025.

[4] Atanasov, Svet (4 July 2003). "La Seconda Moglie". DVD Talk . Retrieved 18 November 2025.

[nng-5] Mereghetti, Paolo (2010). "La seconda moglie". Il Mereghetti 2011. Vol. 2. Baldini Castoldi Dalai. ISBN 978-88-6073-626-0.

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