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  • Summary: Anna has everything she thought she could ever need: a respectable career, a caring family, and a loving partner, Alessio. But when she meets Domenico, a handsome, married waiter, her neatly ordered world begins to fall apart. They quickly fall into a heated affair, based on secret meetings, stolen caresses, cell phone fights, and endless lies. Anna's increasingly distant behavior goes unnoticed by Alessio, while Domenico's wife becomes steadily more suspicious of her husband. As the two lovers begin to fall deeper under the spell of passion, they are faced with a life-changing choice which neither is entirely prepared to make. (Film Movement) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    Dec 7, 2010
    75
    Soldini is able to take the shopworn theme and keep it interesting and fresh despite its lack of new ideas. He's assisted by strong performances by his two leading actors.
  2. Reviewed by: David Lewis
    Feb 10, 2011
    75
    Never fails to be engrossing. That's because Soldini brings us vivid characters, and gets all the details right.
  3. Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    Dec 7, 2010
    70
    This self-consciously modern movie contains classical pleasures.
  4. Reviewed by: Vadim Rizov
    Dec 7, 2010
    40
    There are no surprises in this tale, filmed with deliberately deglamorized handheld camera (yet inexplicably in widescreen); it puts the "adult" in "adultery drama," if by "adult" you mean joyless bores.

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