Latin Lover (film)

Latin Lover
Latin Lover
Directed by	Cristina Comencini
Written by	Cristina Comencini ; Giulia Calenda
Starring	Virna Lisi
Cinematography	Italo Petriccione
Music by	Andrea Farri
Release dates	7 February 2015 (Berlin); 19 March 2015 (Italy);
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Latin Lover is a 2015 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Cristina Comencini. It marked the last cinema appearance of Virna Lisi.^[1] The film received four nominations at the 2015 David di Donatello Awards, for best actress (Lisi), best costumes (Alessandro Lai), best makeup (Ermanno Spera) and best hairstyling (Alberta Giuliani).^[2]

Plot[]

Upon the tenth anniversary of the death of fictional film star Saverio Crispo, his four daughters get together in the family manor in Apulia, Southern Italy. As Saverio used to be at the top of his game as an internationally known film star, he had liaisons with different women across the world, thus having several love children. His children include his Italian daughter, Susanna, who is secretly engaged to Walter, the former editor of Saverio's latest movies, his French daughter, Stéphanie, a mother of three sons from different men, his Spanish daughter, Segunda, the only one being married, and his youngest daughter, Solveig, from Sweden, who had little to no contact with her late father. None of the four women got to really know their late father, but each of them has fabricated an idealized and very personal memory of him.

Saverio's two widows, the Italian-born Rita and the Spanish-born Ramona, are also present at the family reunion. The meeting happens as Saverio's hometown celebrates the late actor's life and achievements, but apparently many secrets are yet to be unveiled about his life and his family.

Cast[]

Virna Lisi as Rita
Marisa Paredes as Ramona
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as Stéphanie
Angela Finocchiaro as Susanna
Candela Peña as Segunda
Pihla Viitala as Solveig
Nadeah Miranda as Shelley
Francesco Scianna as Saverio Crispo
Jordi Mollà as Alfonso
Neri Marcorè as Walter
Claudio Gioè as Marco Serra
Lluís Homar as Pedro
Toni Bertorelli as Picci

Trivia[]

Final film of Virna Lisi. She was already very ill from cancer during production and died shortly after. The film is dedicated to her in the end credit.