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Manual of Love 3 - The Review

At the third chapter, the franchise created by Giovanni Veronesi " Manual of Love" does not seem to want to stop. The first chapter of this saga that we can now safely call, came back in 2005 and already at that time turned up any rumors of sequels and trilogies. What we wonder is: why, despite The second chapter was pretty poor, we are here today to talk about a third? I'm half a mind I would have. Everything on the sly recipe put into practice by producers of the film Luigi and Aurelio De Laurentiis , (the same as cinepanettoni), who know well the tricks not to fail at the box office. Therefore, it is obvious that all the chapters of these films to be seen: do not require vision of the previous one, but rather are completely unrelated ; are always stuffed with the most popular Italian actors of the moment , and last but not least; deal with a topic that always attracts the public's love . And since we do not we do miss anything, this time there is also a trump card: the participation of prestigious star (sunset) Robert De Niro Hollywood .

The structure of the film has nothing different from the previous chapters. This time the three episodes (not four as in the past) are related through the annoying voiceover of Vittorio Emanuele is beneficial in the unlikely role of a taxi driver (in vent 'years?).
In the first episode, Youth : Roberto ( Riccardo Scamarcio ), an aspiring successful lawyer, is madly in love with Sara (Valerie Solarino ). He dreams of marrying her, but during a short business trip to Tuscany, the encounter with the lovely Micol ( Laura Chiatti ) confuse his ideas.
In the second, Maturity: Fabio ( Carlo Verdone) is a journalist said. Married with a daughter he never cheated on his wife. At a gala evening, however, is literally overwhelmed by the encounter with Eliana ( Donatella Finocchiaro ) which soon upset his life completely.
last, well ... : Adrian (Robert De Niro ) is an American professor who moved to Rome after retirement. Separately from wife, has not had any relationship with women. But the return to town of Violet (Monica Bellucci ), the daughter of Port Augusta (Michele Placido ) with which Adrian has also formed a great bond of friendship, will make him change his mind.

Compared to this, the second chapter of the saga, which I defined a few lines further on poor, it becomes a masterpiece! We face the platitudes and rhetoric rather than absolute, not to mention Carlo Verdone, now confined to continuously play the same character only by changing his clothes. Same faces, same reactions, same ambiguous scenes (already seen both in his films, in both the previous films Veronesi-see " Italians" -). It 's a bit that I say, it would be better if it was limited to only do this if the director is now the best we can, as an actor. In his episode the merits, if we want to give it to someone, they can only go to the beautiful and talented Donatella Finocchiaro . For the rest, also the director, the work was pretty poor.

We come now rather than waiting the episode, the one that starred Bob De Niro . From the trailer seemed quite listless former Raging Bull, but in the film, however, I must say that the result was much more convincing than expected. Accomplice as a good shoulder to Michele Placido, (also Bravin) Mr. De Niro manages to snatch even a few giggles when he shows in those beautiful faces that now have become his trademark. Among other things, it was awesome to hear it play with an Italian very fluently and with a few smudges, too bad it wasted in a movie like this.

I regret having to spend, however, words (almost) positive

for the episode with Richard Scamarcio and Laura Chiatti . That apparently was to be the story more poor, not only proved to be the best of the three, particularly at director but is also the only one to make sense. Maybe he knew that the film Veronesi who had in his hands was bad, but since we went to his land, the Tuscany, certainly did not want to look bad. So despite the car chases (and not) in his films do not represent nothing new (re-see "Italians"), is able to give at least a little bit of rhythm after a film that is almost completely assopirà, treating a subject fairly well as the passage from youth to age adulthood.

There was a real excuse to come back with a new "Manual of Love", this time it has really scraped the bottom. Veronesi I find a very good director, but his soul is ruining the business. The thing that scares me the most is knowing that on site there are at least two other manuals incoming .

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