''A Neapolitan Spell'' ( it, Incantesimo napoletano) is a 2002 Italian

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

written and directed by

Paolo Genovese Paolo Genovese (born 20 August 1966) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Rome, after graduating in Economics and Business Genovese started his career at McCann Erickson, directing over one hundred commercials and w ...

and

Luca Miniero Luca Miniero (born 17 January 1967) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Naples, after graduating in Letters Miniero moved to Milan where he started working as a director of commercial shorts. In 1998 he started col ...

, at their feature film debut. For her performance in this film,

Marina Confalone Marina Confalone (born 2 June 1951) is an Italian actress born in Naples. She has appeared in numerous films including ''Così parlò Bellavista'', ''The Second Time'', ''Notes of Love'', '' The Vice of Hope'' for which she won four David di Dona ...

won the

David di Donatello The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award cat ...

for Best Actress.

Plot

Little Assuntina, born into a Neapolitan family, as she grows up begins to speak with a strict Milanese dialect. This very strange anomaly throws the relatives into despair. Over the years, despite attempts to correct it, Assuntina with her language will worsen further, so much so that she will be given the nickname of "Cotoletta" and will refuse to adapt to any Neapolitan tradition, also refusing the typical sweets of the city for those of the capital Lombard. All further attempts by family and friends will be in vain, as will the long stay that they will make her do in Torre Annunziata to let her study the true Neapolitan language with her uncles, commoners who speak only in a very narrow dialect. When she reaches twenty, Assuntina becomes pregnant.

Cast

* Gianni Ferreri as Gianni Aiello *

as Patrizia Aiello * Clelia Bernacchi as Assunta (old age) * Serena Improta as Assunta (20 years old) * Chiara Papa as Assunta (10 years old) *

Riccardo Zinna Riccardo Zinna (18 May 1958 – 20 September 2018) was an Italian actor and musician. Zinna studied under Augusto Perez at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli and at the Conservatorio "Licinio Refice". He began his acting career, which spanned f ...

as Riccardo * Lello Giulivo as Ciro * Lucianna De Falco as Renata * Ciro Ruoppo as Don Alfonso

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* 2005 films 2005 comedy films Films directed by Paolo Genovese Films directed by Luca Miniero Italian comedy films 2005 directorial debut films 2000s Italian-language films {{2000s-Italy-comedy-film-stub

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