Ex (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ex |
| Country of production | Italy , France |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fausto Brizzi |
| script | Fausto Brizzi Marco Martani Massimiliano Bruno |
| production |
Federica Lucisano Fulvio Lucisano |
| music | Bruno Zambrini |
| camera | Marcello Montarsi |
| cut | Luciana Pandolfelli |
| occupation | |
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Ex is a 2009 Italian comedy film . The feature film was directed by Italian director Fausto Brizzi for Italian International Film and Rai Cinema . It is the director's third film.
action
The relationships of six couples, who are related to each other in different ways, are in disintegration for various reasons.
The psychologist and psychology professor Sergio, played by Claudio Bisio, separated from his wife years ago. When she dies in a car accident, the two adolescent daughters move in with him. Since he previously led a Playboy life, he has to adapt. He finds out that his wife loved him all along the breakup.
The judge Luca has to reunite families in his judicial office, but at the same time his marriage to Loredana breaks up. After quarreling with his wife, he moves in with his son. His wife is injured in a supermarket robbery and the two find each other again. His daughter, who works in Paris, is transferred to New Zealand, which becomes a severe test for her relationship with her Parisian boyfriend.
The surgeon Paolo has a relationship with Monique. He is pursued by a former lover of Monique, the police officer Davide. Paolo comes up with more and more unusual excursions and hiding places to avoid Davide, for example to a concert by the band Jalisse in Pescara 200 kilometers from Rome and a motel in the Basilicata region 400 kilometers away - but he succeeds in the first If not, and in the second case it leads to the end of the relationship with Monique. After Davide is shot in the supermarket robbery, Paolo has to operate on him. Paolo saves his life. After the two find out that Monique already has another one, they make up.
Elisa is preparing for a wedding with Corrado. The priest who is supposed to marry her turns out to be Elisha's great childhood sweetheart Lorenzo. In the end, the priest decides to give up his office and Elisa gives Corrado the pass in front of the altar.
Release dates
The cinema release was in Italy on February 6, 2009, in Spain under the title Ex: Todos tenemos uno on July 24, 2009, in Brazil under the title Ah… O Amor! on January 15, 2010, in South Korea on January 21, 2010 and in Argentina under the title Todos tenemos un ... Ex on April 22, 2010. Although Rai Trade sold the film rights to Germany at the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival , the However, the film has not been shown in cinemas. The rights for German-language television broadcasts are held by the Salzburg distributor TV Alliance . The German first broadcast took place on pay TV on February 8, 2013 on Romance TV and on free TV on April 22, 2013 on MDR .
In addition to cinemas, the film was also shown at some festivals, such as the 2009 Accade Domani-Nuovo Cinema Italiano, an event that takes place in eight Italian cities, at the Busan International Film Festival 2009, the Alpe d ' Huez Film Festival 2010 in the Isère department and the Festival del Cinema Italiano 2010 in Tokyo . The film was also called Many Kisses Later at festivals in the United States and Australia .
Others
Shooting started on July 15, 2008. The film was shot in Italy ( Rome ), France ( Paris ) and South Africa (those scenes that take place in the film in New Zealand). The film had a budget of 8 million euros. In Italy alone, he made 12 million euros by May 2009. Was funded ex by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities ( Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali ) with one million euros. A sequel under the name Ex - Amici come prima! was shot in 2011 in North Rhine-Westphalia, among others, this time the director was Carlo Vanzina ; the world premiere in Italy was on October 7, 2011.
The film music for Ex was written by the Italian composer Bruno Zambrini, who had written film music for Piero Vivarelli , Duccio Tessari , Gabriele Crisanti , Franco Castellano , Giuseppe Moccia , Giorgio Capitani and dozens of films by Neri Parenti and as a composer for Joe Sentieri , Domenico Modugno , Gianni Morandi , Rita Pavone , Alessandro Alessandroni , Mina , Patty Pravo , Little Tony . He also wrote the score for the first two films by the director Fausto Brizzi. Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt was used as the movie's theme song . The film soundtrack also includes Biagio Antonacci , Tom Jones , Jalisse (with the title Fiume die parole , with which they came fourth in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest ), Franco Battiato , Oasis , Dido , Raf , John Legend , Alicia Keys (with If I Ain't Got You ), Pink , Gavin DeGraw , The Fray , Luca Carboni , John Mayer and Enrico Ruggeri .
While the film has the age rating "T" (approved for all age groups) in Italy and "M" (also approved for all age groups) in Australia, it was rated at "13" in Argentina. In South Korea it is only recommended for people aged 18 and over.
At the same time as the film was released, the Arnoldo Mondadori Editore publishing house published a version of the novel written by the director Fausto Brizzi entitled Il manuale degli Ex .
Reviews
On Rotten Tomatoes , the film got a rating of 58 percent based on 190 reviews with an average rating of 3.4 out of 5.
Manuel Celentano gives the film on film e DVD 3.5 out of 5 stars:
"Il modello di Brizzi è il Richard Curtis di ' Love actually ', e come la nota pellicola inglese anche questo film presenta un variegato mosaico di relazioni sentimentali, incentrate in particolare nei rapporti fra ex."
"Brizzi is modeled on Richard Curtis' film 'Indeed… Love', and like the well-known British film, this film presents a varied mosaic of romantic relationships, with particular emphasis on dealing with former relationships."
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Awards
Ex was nominated for the most important Italian film award, the Premio David di Donatello , in ten of 25 categories in 2009, but couldn't win any: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Carla Signoris), Best Supporting Actor (Claudio Bisio), Best Score, Best Original Song, Best Editing, Best Sound (Marco Fiumara), and Premio David Giovani.
For the Nastro d'Argento 2009, a film prize awarded by the professional association of Italian film journalists SGNCI , Ex received seven nominations in six categories: Best Comedy , Best Screenplay , Best Supporting Actor (Claudio Bisio and Silvio Orlando), Best Supporting Actress (Carla Signoris), best editing and best original song (Biagio Antonacci). Ex won the award for best comedy.
Web links
- Ex in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official press kit for the film (14 pages, PDF , Italian; 921 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the Italian DVD, the official press kit of the film indicates a length of 120 minutes.
- ↑ Release certificate for Ex . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 131 V).
- ↑ a b CINEMA: CANNES, 'EX' DI FAUSTO BRIZZI 'SBANCA' IL MARCHE ' ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Article on IGN Entertainment (Italian), version of November 5, 2013.
- ↑ side of the film at tvalliance.at
- ↑ MDR broadcast dates on the TV Movie website on April 22, 2013 (no longer online)
- ↑ a b page of the film on cinemaitaliano.info (Italian)
- ↑ Fausto Brizzi film diary (Italian)
- ^ "Ex" nei cinema dal 6 febbraio con Insinna e Gassman ( Memento of March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Article from January 31, 2009 by Dina d'Isa in the daily newspaper Il Tempo (Italian; archive version from July 8, 2012)
- ↑ Ex, colonna sonora . Article on Il CineManiaco by Pietro Ferraro (Italian)
- ↑ Ex at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ see Ex at Film e DVD ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian)
- ↑ Information from the DA-CH rights holder TV Alliance, available for authorized persons under ticket: 2014011010007366 .
- ↑ The Spanish voice actors on eldoblaje.com (Spanish)
- ↑ Ex in the German dubbing index
- ↑ Nastri d'Argento 2009 in the Internet Movie Database (English)