Pensavo fosse amore, invece era un calesse

Pensavo fosse amore, invece era un calesse
Directed by Massimo Troisi
Music by Pino Daniele
Cinematography Camillo Bazzoni
Language Italian

Pensavo fosse amore, invece era un calesse (I thought it was love, but it was a barouche) is a 1991 Italian romance-comedy drama film. It is the last film directed by Massimo Troisi.[1]

For his performance Angelo Orlando won the David di Donatello for best supporting actor.[2]

Plot

Tommaso and Cecilia are two neapolitan fiancés, leading an apparently regular life: he has a restaurant in the Borgo Marinari. His single and bigotted friend Amedeo owns a library nearby: Amedeo has a teenager sister, Chiara, who's in love with Tommaso.

Tommaso and Cecilia are about to marry, but Cecilia's excessive jealousy imperils the wedding, especially when she pretends having heard her future husband naming another woman, Elena, while they were making love. The situation quickly degenerates: Cecilia leaves Tommaso and becomes engaged to a mysterious man named Enea, who is reputed handsome, charming and extremely sympathetic by Tommaso's and Cecilia's common friend, albeit Tommaso never saw him directly.

By the way, Amedeo becomes engaged to Flora, former girlfriend of a common friend, Giorgio. When Chiara realises she can't conquer Tommaso's heart, in a very funny scene she poisons him spiking his coffee with rat powder. Once reestablished, Tommaso tries any way to disenchant his loved Cecilia, even asking for help from a white magician. It seems to work: Cecilia leaves Enea and goes back to Tommaso.

The wedding day arrives, but Tommaso does not go to the altar: his love for Cecilia is gone, he doesn't even know why, maybe because, as he states in one of the film's final lines, "men and women are not made to be joined in marriage", so they arrange to go out at night without marrying.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Enrico Lancia; Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401372.
  2. ↑ Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.


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