The subway car closes the door two centimeters from your face, just before boarding: just a moment and you feel Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors, with a thousand questions and many “what if …?”. Something like this happens in 4 halves, the comedy by Alessio Maria Federici available on Netflix from January 5th. In a figurative sense, of course, because in the film you travel by car, scooter or, at most, by bus.
The protagonists, very different from each other, are (as the title suggests) four single friends of the couple who acts as the narrator of the story and who spreads their theory on love, synergies and affinity. The two, in fact, believe in the idea that for each human being there is an absolute compatibility, a soul mate who sublime “happily ever after”. To prove the reasonableness of the thesis they use as guinea pigs this well-assorted group from which they hypothesize to come up with two lovestories. Not that friends have asked them for help, of course, or that they are looking for a relationship or anything.
The four, then, unaware of the ambush, get to know each other sipping good wine and chatting, not at all disappointed with the company. In fact they are young, successful and also handsome, so on paper they are perfect matches for each other. The cast, on the other hand, lends itself very well to the enterprise. Giuseppe Maggio, fresh from the fame of romantic hero in the first chapter of the saga of On the most beautiful, plays Dario, a nice and handsome lawyer who collects one night stand stories. Matteo Martari, just seen in the fiction Hearts, here he conveys the intellectual charm of the publishing expert with an adorable awkwardness in Matteo. Ilena Pastorelli, in the limelight in They called him Jeeg Robot, here he tries his hand at a different register for Chiara, an anesthetist with his head a little in the clouds. Matilde Gioli, currently back in fiction Doc – in your hands alongside Luca Argentero, here he embodies the pragmatic spirit because his Giulia is a researcher of statistics and mathematics with brilliant perspectives outside Italy.
The evening, which began under the best auspices, ends even better than expected because the much anticipated harmony is really created. But among whom, exactly? On the one hand we find the theory according to which those who are alike take on, on the other the adage that foresees that opposites attract. Thus begins an intriguing cross between present and future, based on the assumption that each of us eventually changes when involved in a relationship. This means that he makes conditional choices, embarks on more or less calculated risks and, consequently, rewrites his own destiny. One way, on the other hand, excludes the other and precludes new possibilities.
Who wouldn’t want to know what their life would have been like if instead of ditching their ex, they would have continued in the relationship? Or what if, on the contrary, he had had the courage to end earlier? And, even more radical, here one wonders if a partner can actually turn their fortunes upside down. This intrigue of Martullian questions leads to talk of soulmates, half of the apple and predestination, but in such a brilliant and not at all obvious form that it is immediately conquered.
Start the year with this charge of amazement, romance, lightness and abandonment it does not mean being predisposed to something in particular but not even precluding the possibility of finding it. In a casual, free and even rebellious way. Provided, of course, that you know how to put into play how this delightful comedy really manages to do.
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