Damned the Day I Met You

Damned the Day I Met You
Directed byCarlo Verdone
Written byFrancesca Marciano
Carlo Verdone
Produced byMario Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
StarringCarlo Verdone
Margherita Buy
CinematographyDanilo Desideri
Edited byAntonio Siciliano
Music byFabio Liberatori
Distributed byVariety Distribution
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Box office$6.4 million (Italy)[1]

Damned the Day I Met You ( Italian: Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato) is a 1992 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Carlo Verdone.[2][3][4] The film won five David di Donatello Awards, for best screenplay, best actor, best cinematography, best editing and best supporting actress (Elisabetta Pozzi).[5] For her performance Margherita Buy won the Ciak d'oro for best actress.[5]

Plot

[edit]

Bernardo, a Roman music journalist living in Milan, is dumped by his girlfriend (almost fiancé), and, extremely depressed, begins working with a therapist, Prof. Altieri. His career as a rock music critic begins to decline, and he cannot find a way to publish a book on the life secrets of Jimi Hendrix. In the meantime, he meets the neurotic Camilla, who is both a patient and a wannabe lover of Altieri's, with whom she's obsessed. From that point on, Camilla disrupts Bernardo's life, but becomes his best friend. After a huge fight, the two lose contact. They separately travel to London, where Camilla is a theatre actress and Bernardo is working on Hendrix's biography, interviewing people who might have known the rock star. They meet again, apologizing to one another, only to have their personal and professional lives disrupted again. One night, at Land's End in Cornwall, Bernardo and Camilla get intimately close, enraging Camilla's latest boyfriend (her theatre production's director), with whom she was not happy anyway. Camilla secretly sells a precious ring to fund Bernardo's interview with an important source for his book. Later on though, she messes up the recording of the interview... The ending is very romantic, unlike the ending of most of Verdone's movies.

Cast

[edit]

Reception

[edit]

In its second week of release, the film reached number one at the Italian box office and remained there for two weeks.[6][7] It was the fourth highest-grossing Italian film in Italy for the year with a gross of $6.4 million and the eleventh overall.[1]

Awards

[edit]
Awards
Award Category Recipients and nominees Result
59th David di Donatello Awards Best Film Carlo Verdone, Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori Nominated
Best Director Carlo Verdone Nominated
Best Script Carlo Verdone and Francesca Marciano Won
Best Actor Carlo Verdone Won
Best Actress Margherita Buy Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Giancarlo Dettori Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Elisabetta Pozzi Won
Best Cinematography Danilo Desideri Won
Best Editing Antonio Siciliano Won
32nd Globi d'oro Best Film Carlo Verdone Nominated
Best Script Carlo Verdone and Francesca Marciano Nominated
Best Actor Carlo Verdone Won
Best Actress Margherita Buy Won
Best Cinematography Danilo Desideri Nominated
7th Ciak d'oro Best Actress Margherita Buy Won

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "Italian domestic top 10". Screen International. 29 January 1993. p. 18.
  2. ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 88-6073-626-9.
  3. ^ Roberto Chiti; Enrico Lancia; Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401372.
  4. ^ Enrico Magrelli (2010). Carlo Verdone: l'insostenibile leggerezza della malinconia. Besa, 2010. ISBN 978-8849706925.
  5. ^ a b Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.
  6. ^ "International box office". Variety. 17 February 1992. p. 46.
  7. ^ "International box office". Variety. 24 February 1992. p. 89.
[edit]