What a Beautiful Surprise

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What a Beautiful Surprise
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Directed by Alessandro Genovesi
Screenplay byAlessandro Genovesi
Giovanni Bognetti
Claudio Torres
Story by Luca Miniero
Riccardo Milani
Alessandro Genovesi
Produced byMaurizio Totti
Alessandro Usai
Starring
CinematographyFederico Masiero
Music by Andrea Farri
Release date
  • March 11, 2015 (2015-03-11)
Running time
91 minutes
Language Italian

What a Beautiful Surprise (Italian : Ma che bella sorpresa) is a 2015 Italian comedy film written and directed by Alessandro Genovesi and starring Claudio Bisio. [1] [2] [3] It grossed $5,626,528 at the Italian box office. [4]

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Plot

Guido, a Milanese who has relocated to Naples, is a somewhat romantic teacher of Italian literature. When his wife leaves him for a young Belgian, Guido becomes depressed and it seems his life has gone to pieces. Not even the support of his parents Giovanni and Carla and his friend Paolo, a physical education teacher, can lift his morale. Everything changes when Guido meets his new neighbor, an extremely attractive young woman named Silvia. Guido immediately falls wildly in love with her, as she embodies all the qualities he wants in a woman. Happily, she falls in love with him as well, and for a time everything seems perfect for him.

Meanwhile, Giada, another neighbor who recently lost her husband, is madly in love with Guido but contents herself with eavesdropping on him through the wall that separates their apartments, rather than approaching him.

When Guido's parents visit him, things start to fall apart. Eventually we learn the cause of the many misunderstandings; it turns out that all the while Silvia has just been a figment of Guido's imagination.

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References

  1. ↑ Fiorelli, Paolo (11 March 2015). "Ma che bella sorpresa, il nuovo film con Claudio Bisio". TV Sorrisi e Canzoni (in Italian). Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Finos, Arianna (3 March 2015). "Pozzetto, Bisio, Matano tre generazioni di comici per una "Bella sorpresa"". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Redazione (27 February 2015). "Ma che bella sorpresa, Bisio e la donna perfetta". Vanity Fair (in Italian). Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Ma che bella sorpresa". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 31 December 2015.
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