Chicago European Union Film Festival – Let Yourself Go (Lasciati andare)
2017, Francesco Amati, Italy, 103 min.
With Toni Servillo, Verónica Echegui.
Fri, Mar 30 at 4:00pm
Sat, Mar 31 at 8:00pm
It’s screwball Italian style, flavored with Jewish wit à la Woody and straight-up slapstick à la Stan & Ollie, in this bright twist on the classic comedy trope of the uptight male whose life is upended by a madcap female. Top Italian actor Toni Servillo (THE GREAT BEAUTY, IL DIVO) gets a chance to flex his comic talents as a Rome-based Jewish psychiatrist who likes to keep life at a comfortable, well-managed distance— including his wife Giovanna, separated but living on cordial terms in the apartment right next door. Then his doctor’s orders to get more exercise put him on a collision course with a hot-blooded fitness instructor (Echegui of YOU’RE KILLING ME SUSANA) who becomes his personal trainer and whose baggage includes a son who likes to set things on fire and a jailbird boyfriend (Luca Marinelli) who needs the shrink’s hypnosis skills to help him remember where he buried a pile of ill-gotten loot. In Italian with English subtitles. Courtesy of Menemsha Films. DCP digital widescreen.
Chicago European Union Film Festival is the largest festival in the nation showcasing films of the European Union, this festival annually presents Chicago premieres of more than 60 new feature films from the 28 EU nations.
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