2015 · comedy · coming-of-age
Ma che bella sorpresa
Directed by Alessandro Genovesi1h 31m2015
High school professor Guido is a hopeless romantic whose life falls apart after his girlfriend leaves him. Paolo, a former student of his, helps him in getting out of his depression for a better chance to become a PE teacher himself.
Our read: Ma che bella sorpresa (2015) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- gentle
- intimate
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