Love Is Not Perfect

Love Is Not Perfect
Film poster
Italian	L'amore è imperfetto
Directed by	Francesca Muci
Screenplay by	Francesca Muci Gianni Romoli
Based on	L’amore è imperfetto by Francesca Muci
Produced by	Tilde Corsi Gianni Romoli
Starring	Anna Foglietta Giulio Berruti
Cinematography	Vittorio Omodei Zorini
Music by	Manuel De Sica
Production companies	R&C Produzioni Rai Cinema
Distributed by	01 Distribution
Release date	November 29, 2012 (2012-11-29)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Love Is Not Perfect (Italian: L'amore è imperfetto) is a 2012 Italian romance film written and directed by Francesca Muci in her directorial debut, and starring Anna Foglietta and Giulio Berruti. The screenplay is based on the 2012 Italian novel of the same name, written by Francesca Muci.

Produced by Tilde Corsi and Gianni Romoli, Love Is Not Perfect premiered in Italy on 29 November 2012.

Cast

• Anna Foglietta as Elena
• Giulio Berruti as Marco
• Bruno Wolkowitch as Ettore
• Lorena Cacciatore as Adriana
• Camilla Filippi as Roberta

Plot

Thirty-five year old Elena works for a publishing house. She has chosen to live as a single woman after her long-lasting but unsatisfying relationship with Marco, a free-lance photographer, ended when she discovered him flirting with another man in a restaurant.

After a minor accident on a scooter she meets Adriana, a seductive young woman, and Ettore, an older man. Attracted to Adriana's unpredictability, which offers excitement and passion, and Ettore's calmness, which provides stability and security, Elena finds herself torn between the two and enters into a relationship with both in pursuit of love.

Production

Asked about the sex scene with Bruno Wolkowitch, Anna Foglietta said that it created some problems with their respective partners in real life. "In the scene Wolkowitch tears off my bra with enthusiasm and gropes my tits. Then he throws me on the bed and slips his hand under my skirt. After the 'cut', I was afraid I had done something bad because he, upset, kept calling his wife repeating: 'I love you, I love you'. It is never easy to make certain scenes, they can shake you a lot."

See also

• List of Italian films of 2012

Further reading

• Boni, Federico (28 November 2012). "L'Amore è Imperfetto: Recensione in Anteprima" [Love is Imperfect: Preview Review]. Cineblog (in Italian).
• Chillura, Elisa (29 November 2012). ""L'amore è imperfetto", parola di Lorena Cacciatore" [Love is imperfect, the word of Lorena Cacciatore]. Balarm.it (in Italian).
• Errico, Laura (18 November 2012). "Lorena Cacciatore presenta su NN "L'amore è imperfetto", al cinema dal 29 novembre" [Lorena Cacciatore presents on NN "L'amore è imperfetto" (Love is not perfect), at the cinema from November 29]. NewNotizie (in Italian).
• Reverdito, Guido. "(Mis)representation of sexual diversity in Italian Cinema". CAPA Florence. p. 11. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Directed in 2012 by Francesca Muci and based on her novel by the same title, L'amore è imperfetto [Love is imperfect] is the other film in which the theme of female homosexuality is presented with a certain courage. Elena, the protagonist, is a beautiful woman in her mid thirties who, after having had an unfortunate relationship with a man with whom she had a child but also many disappointments and that she left with the certainty that love is only an illusion, suddenly flourishes when almost simultaneously she meets both a charming middle-aged man who makes her rediscover the power of passion and an eighteen years old girl who helps her to discover hidden in herself a bisexual soul ready to start a lesbian relationship in all effects. Although not entirely successful in all its components, L'amore è imperfetto, however, has the merit of presenting a situation of a certain unconventionality of a woman capable of going against the rigid bourgeois norm of Italian society to pursue happiness at the cost of clashing with respectability prevailing everywhere.
• Vinci, Marilena (29 November 2012). ""L'amore è imperfetto" ma neanche il film scherza" [Love is imperfect but the film is no joke either]. RB Casting (in Italian). Archived from the original on March 17, 2013.
• "'L'amore è imperfetto' – primo lungometraggio di Francesca Muci" ['Love is Imperfect' – first feature film by Francesca Muci]. Cinemagay (in Italian). 1 December 2012.
• "L'amore imperfetto di Francesca Muci" [Imperfect Love by Francesca Muci]. Cinematografo (in Italian). 27 November 2012.
• "Learning to love imperfect films "L'amore è imperfetto" [2012 Italy]". Thirstyrabbit. 4 April 2013.

External links

• Love Is Not Perfect at IMDb
• L'amore è imperfetto at Appuntamento al Cinema, Associazione Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche Audiovisive e Digitali (Italian Association of Film, Audiovisual and Digital Industry)