Investigation Into a Love Story movie storyline. Paolo and Lucia have been a couple for eight years and their story has gone through ups and downs – first and foremost a betrayal on his part. Both are Sicilian actors who struggle to find work in contemporary Rome and in the era in which celebrity is reserved for influencers and reality TV contestants.
So Lucia decides to participate in a popular television program in which couples tell their story and Paolo, although reluctant, accepts. But as the television story progresses – and their public visibility grows – the two are faced with the flaws in their love life: and perhaps this is precisely the reason why Lucia was so insistent in wanting to participate in that program, having never truly overcome Paul’s betrayal.
A quarter of a century after Un amore, the director and screenwriter Gianluca Maria Tavarelli returns to tell the twists and turns of a couple’s story, but effectively transports his story into the present, showing how love today cannot ignore the spectacularization of itself that it exposes, and partly determines, structural fragilities.
The fact that the protagonists of Investigation into a Love Story (unfortunately a very unattractive title) are two actors only highlights the contemporary propensity for staging of young couples who grew up watching (even if they pretend to have never seen them) reality shows and shows. like Temptation Island and Men and Women.
But the couple dynamics at the root remain the same as always, and Tavarelli tells them with the rare ability to make all the steps recognisable, even if the narrative guise is that of comedy. Watching Investigation of a love story we often smile and laugh, at Paolo and Lucia but also at us, as we find ourselves in the interactions and dialogues (very well written) of the film. Alessio Vassallo and Barbara Giordano are very effective in the roles of Paolo and Lucia, and above all Vassallo puts his vulnerability to the advantage of a role that allows us to glimpse the chronic insecurity and melancholy of the contemporary late thirties even in the moments of greatest comedy.
Investigation Into a Love Story (2024)
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Directed by: Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
Starring: Alessio Vassallo, Barbara Giordano, Claudia Potenza, Antonio Pandolfo, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Robi Arquette, Stefania Blandeburgo, Caterina Cianfa
Screenplay by: Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
Production Design by: Simona Garotta
Cinematography by: Federico Annicchiarico
Film Editing by: Alessandro Heffler
Costume Design by: Valeria Bistoni
Art Direction by: Beatrice Bucci, Mourad Negri
Music by: Ralf Hildenbeutel
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Ad Vitam Distribution
Release Date: July 18, 2024
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