
Title: Madly
Original Title: Follemente
Year: 2025
Info
- Country: Italy
- Language: Italian
- Length: 97 Minutes (1 hour 37 min)
- Genre: Comedy Romance
- Studios: Lotus Productions Rai Cinema
- Distributor: LAZONA
Plot
In "LocaMente," Paolo Genovese (director of 'Perfectos desconocidos') turns a first date into a battlefield as intimate as it is hilarious. Piero and Lara meet with the hope of making a good impression, but within each of them bubbles an impossible committee: the romantic side, the rational side, the insecure side, and the passionate side. These personalities take control in turns, discuss strategies, contradict each other, seduce, and sabotage their own "self" until every gesture and every word is pushed to the limit. What should be a simple encounter becomes an emotional obstacle course where a constant question beats: will the heart or desire prevail? With spicy humor and a very human perspective, the film suggests that anyone can recognize themselves in that inner chaos and in those little self-sabotages that ruin, or save, a night that promises more than it seems.
The comedy deploys its weapons by making visible those "selves" that we usually hide, the voice that demands caution, the one that pushes for a leap into the void, the one that hesitates in silence, and the one that, out of sheer fear, ruins a perfect compliment. Amid misunderstandings, confidences, and sparks of chemistry, Piero and Lara learn to dialogue not only with each other but with their own internal chorus. Genovese uses this mechanism to x-ray modern relationships, the pressure to be liked, the constant negotiation between authenticity and facade, without losing the rhythm of a contemporary screwball, where every minimal decision (what to share, when to laugh, how to say goodbye) can tip the scale towards disaster or complicity. 'LocaMente' thus functions as both a mirror and a game: a romantic comedy of a single night that, by giving voice to what we think and never say, reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary and leaves us with the feeling that, sometimes, understanding oneself is the first step to being able to fall in love with someone.
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