The opening scenes of the film unfold in Villa Buondi, a therapeutic community close to Pistoia, which is actually a villa on Via Tiberina. The murals were created especially for the film.
The community is reconstructed at an abandoned agricultural estate, in the middle of plant nurseries (one of these being the Tesi plant nursery in Pistoia) where the guests spend their days working with plants. It is at Villa Biondi that the two protagonists meet and become friends.
During a group outing, Beatrice, somewhat by chance and somewhat deliberately, drags Donatella on an exciting adventure which leaves both of them more mature, genuine and human in their weaknesses. They go to a shopping centre (The ‘Gigli’ shopping centre in Campi Bisenzio, in the province of Florence), which triggers an unlikely series of events – they steal a car and go for dinner in a restaurant at Terme Tettuccio in Montecatini (PT), which was transformed into a luxury hotel for the film, and then escape along Viale Verdi and Piazza Italia, heading towards the railway station.
Their getaway seems to halt at Seven Apples, the club where Donatella’s problems started years previously, along the seafront in Marina di Pietrasanta (LU).
For the next few scenes the two women go their separate ways: Donatella ends up in hospital and Beatrice goes to her lawyer ex-husband’s villa (a private villa in Ansedonia, a district of Orbetello in the area surrounding Grosseto), later loitering outside the home of the man she’s still in love with. The pair are soon back together however like Thelma and Louise, leaving Villa Mansi in Segromigno in Monte in Capannori (LU), where Beatrice’s family lives, in a fire red convertible and heading down the motorway that goes from Lucchesia to Versilia, hot on the heels of a past that is too cumbersome and painful to be ignored.
In Viareggio (LU), Donatella decides to open up to Beatrice, and tells her about a walk she went on with her son during the Viareggio Carnival and her extreme actions on Calafuria Bridge in Livorno: the two women confide in one another sitting on a small wall along the seafront. Other locations in Viareggio used for filming include Piazza Mazzini, Piazza Puccini, the pine grove and the hospital. The beach provides the backdrop for the poetic closing scene as the two women go for a dip in the sea before returning to Villa Biondi.
The opening scenes of the film unfold in Villa Buondi, a therapeutic community close to Pistoia, which is actually a villa on Via Tiberina. The murals were created especially for the film.
The community is reconstructed at an abandoned agricultural estate, in the middle of plant nurseries (one of these being the Tesi plant nursery in Pistoia) where the guests spend their days working with plants. It is at Villa Biondi that the two protagonists meet and become friends.
During a group outing, Beatrice, somewhat by chance and somewhat deliberately, drags Donatella on an exciting adventure which leaves both of them more mature, genuine and human in their weaknesses. They go to a shopping centre (The ‘Gigli’ shopping centre in Campi Bisenzio, in the province of Florence), which triggers an unlikely series of events – they steal a car and go for dinner in a restaurant at Terme Tettuccio in Montecatini (PT), which was transformed into a luxury hotel for the film, and then escape along Viale Verdi and Piazza Italia, heading towards the railway station.
Their getaway seems to halt at Seven Apples, the club where Donatella’s problems started years previously, along the seafront in Marina di Pietrasanta (LU).
For the next few scenes the two women go their separate ways: Donatella ends up in hospital and Beatrice goes to her lawyer ex-husband’s villa (a private villa in Ansedonia, a district of Orbetello in the area surrounding Grosseto), later loitering outside the home of the man she’s still in love with. The pair are soon back together however like Thelma and Louise, leaving Villa Mansi in Segromigno in Monte in Capannori (LU), where Beatrice’s family lives, in a fire red convertible and heading down the motorway that goes from Lucchesia to Versilia, hot on the heels of a past that is too cumbersome and painful to be ignored.
In Viareggio (LU), Donatella decides to open up to Beatrice, and tells her about a walk she went on with her son during the Viareggio Carnival and her extreme actions on Calafuria Bridge in Livorno: the two women confide in one another sitting on a small wall along the seafront. Other locations in Viareggio used for filming include Piazza Mazzini, Piazza Puccini, the pine grove and the hospital. The beach provides the backdrop for the poetic closing scene as the two women go for a dip in the sea before returning to Villa Biondi.
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti - Seafront, Viareggio
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Micaela Ramazzotti, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Paolo Virzì
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Micaela Ramazzotti
Villa Biondi, near Pistoia, which houses a centre for women suffering from mental illness, is the stage for the encounter between Beatrice, a lively pathological liar who acts like a lady, and Donatella, a young introverted and wary young woman. They are two women with very different backgrounds, who have both been driven ‘mad’ by love.
