''A Perfect Day'' () is a 2008
Italian
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drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Ferzan Özpetek
Ferzan Özpetek (, ; born 3 February 1959) is a Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy since 1978.
Biography
Ferzan Özpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. In 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History ...
. It is based on a novel with the same name by
Melania Mazzucco.
It entered the competition at the
65th Venice International Film Festival
The 65th annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 27 August 2008 to 6 September 2008, at Venice Lido in Italy. The festival was dedicated to the late Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine. .
Plot
Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed, Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the adolescent Valentina. Emma tolerates the harassment of Antonio, and the situation seems to recover. However one evening Antonio asks his ex-wife to entrust him with their children for an evening at a pizzeria. Antonio has a diabolical plan, and when he returns home with Kevin and Valentina, he pulls out a gun and shoots both of his children, and finally commits suicide. Emma rushes desperately to them, and discovers that her daughter is still alive.
Cast
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Isabella Ferrari
Isabella Fogliazza (born 31 March 1964), better known by her stage name of Isabella Ferrari, is an Italian television, stage and film actress. She is best known for her role as Commissioner Giovanna Scalise, the main character in the police dram ...
as Emma Tempesta Buonocore
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Valerio Mastandrea
Valerio Mastandrea (born 14 February 1972) is an Italian film, stage and television actor.
Life and career
He was born in Rome. While being a student of philosophy, in the early 1990s Mastandrea enjoyed some success thanks to the semi-regular p ...
as Antonio Buonocore
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as Maja Fioravanti
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Federico Costantini as Aris Fioravanti
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Valerio Binasco
Valerio Binasco (born 20 June 1964) is an Italian actor, stage director, and playwright.
Life and career
Born in Paderna, Binasco graduated at the drama school of the Stabile di Genova, where he made his professional debut in 1987. He won two ...
as Elio Fioravanti
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Monica Guerritore
Monica Guerritore (born 5 January 1958) is an Italian film, theatre, and television actress.
Biography
Guerritore was born in Rome to a Neapolitan father and a Calabrian mother. She had her first small part in Vittorio De Sica's ''Una breve vac ...
as Mara
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Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli (born 5 June 1946) is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the "Italian-style comedy" (''commedia all'italiana''), starting from the 1960s. She was 14 years old when she starred in ''Divorce Italian Style'' as Ang ...
as Olimpia Tempesta
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Nicole Murgia as Valentina Buonocore
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Gabriele Paolino as Kevin Buonocore
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Angela Finocchiaro as Silvana
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Giulia Salerno as Camilla Fioravanti
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Milena Vukotic
Milena Vukotic (, ; born 23 April 1935) is an Italian actress of film, stage and television and former ballerina.
Biography
Vukotic was born in Rome, to a Montenegrin comedy playwright father and an Italian pianist/composer mother. As a ch ...
as Professoressa di Aris
References
External links
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2008 films
Italian drama films
2000s Italian-language films
Films set in Rome
Films directed by Ferzan Özpetek
2000s Italian films
Fandango (Italian company) films
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