We liked this Italian movie which starts out with speed-dating in Turin, Italy, then becomes a love story, then morphs into a thriller. The directing debut of Giuseppe Capotondi, it is fast paced and satisfying. The movie won three awards at the 2009 Venice Film Festival: Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Italian Film. Kseniya (AKA Ksenia) Rappoport is Russian, but her character Sonia the chambermaid is Slovenian, and she gets more beautiful as the movie progresses.
The original score by Pasquale Catalano is great, as well as the use of songs (here's a list). We saw this after the baseball game yesterday on a road trip a couple of hours south. Because we had never before heard of the movie we decided to check it out. It was obviously a DVD (the little rectangle on the screen that said 1080p before the credits was the giveaway) but it was perfectly formatted and focused so we didn't mind.
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