THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – AVOID
Gentrified cinema, or love among the Milanese petty bourgeois. Signed by Paolo Genovese, veteran of dramatic, romantic and sociological comedy beyond the Alps, superhero lovers describes the (chance) meeting and (full of pitfalls) romantic relationship of Marco, a physics professor, and Anna, a comic book designer, who, when not practicing their fascinating and glamorous professions, leave on vacation in heavenly places.
The film, deconstructing the chronology of events spread over twenty years, is intended as a reflection on the passage of time and the couples that last. Is a solid and lasting romantic relationship a superpower? The answer probably lies in the deliberately infantile nature of the question. Passion, boredom, jealousy, temptation of adultery, expectation of a child, illness, all the clichés parade during the time of the projection, like in a catalog of ready-to-think love. The basic idea is already the most absurd commonplace, but the whole is above all a sentimental nonsense without limits and without scruples.
Similar to a long commercial, bathed throughout by extremely banal musical choices, the film ends, moreover, in the stickiest melodramatic conventions, not hesitating to resort to the more cruel to draw, in extremis, tears to the spectator. Today’s average or mainstream Italian cinema is no longer exported much and is hardly visible in French cinemas. Wasn’t there better than that to show?
superhero lovers, Italian film by Paolo Genovese. With Jasmine Trinca, Alessandro Borghi, Rolando Ravello, Greta Scarano. (2 hours).