Manual of Love

Manual of Love
File:Manuale damore poster.jpg Italian poster
Directed by	Giovanni Veronesi
Produced by	Aurelio De Laurentiis
Written by	Vincenzo Cerami Ugo Chiti Giovanni Veronesi
Starring	Silvio Muccino Carlo Verdone Margherita Buy Jasmine Trinca Sergio Rubini Luciana Littizzetto
Music by	Paolo Buonvino
Cinematography	Giovanni Canevari
Edited by	Claudio Di Mauro
Release dates	March 18, 2005 (2005-03-18)
Running time	116 min
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Manual of Love (Italian: Manuale d'amorecode: it is deprecated ) is a 2005 Italian blockbuster romantic comedy film in four quartets. It was directed by Giovanni Veronesi, who made two sequels, Manuale d'amore 2 – Capitoli successivi in 2007, and Manuale d'amore 3 in 2011.

Plot

Each of the four episodes follows a different couple, focusing on a particular stage of a typical love relationship:

• Innamoramento (falling in love): Giulia and Tommaso (Jasmine Trinca and Silvio Muccino) meet and fall in love;
• Crisi (crisis): Barbara and Marco (Margherita Buy and Sergio Rubini) are a couple going through a crisis, close to divorce;
• Tradimento (cheating): A traffic police woman named Ornella (Luciana Littizzetto) is cheated on by her husband and takes revenge;
• Abbandono (break-up): Goffredo (Carlo Verdone) is a rich doctor abandoned by his wife.

The characters in the movie are all related in one way or another, and each transition brings background characters from a previous episode to be the protagonists of the next episode. The film is set in Rome.

Cast

• Carlo Verdone: Goffredo
• Luciana Littizzetto: Ornella
• Silvio Muccino: Tommaso
• Sergio Rubini: Marco
• Margherita Buy: Barbara
• Jasmine Trinca: Giulia
• Rodolfo Corsato: Alberto Marchese
• Dino Abbrescia: Gabriele
• Dario Bandiera: Piero
• Luis Molteni: avvocato di Goffredo
• Sabrina Impacciatore: Luciana
• Anita Caprioli: Livia
• Francesco Mandelli: Dante

Awards

• 2 Nastro d'Argento: Best Supporting Actor (Carlo Verdone), Best Screenplay.
• 2 David di Donatello Best Supporting Actor (Carlo Verdone), Best Supporting Actress (Margherita Buy).

External links

• Manual of Love at IMDb