''It May Be Love But It Doesn't Show'' ( it, Anche se è amore non si vede) is a 2011 Italian

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written, directed and starred by the comedy duo

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. It is their first film in which the setting is not Sicilian. The film was a box office success, grossing over 6 million

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Plot summary

Salvo and Valentino are two Sicilian friends who have moved to

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

, and now run a small business together. They drive foreign tourists around in a double-decker bus, and Salvo always tries to approach the pretty girls. On the other hand, Valentino is a faithful boyfriend but continually pesters his girl Gisella with over-the-top sentimental gestures and gifts. Finally, Gisella becomes totally annoyed and decides to leave him. Since she lacks the courage to tell Valentino herself, she asks Salvo to tell Valentino before she comes back from a work trip. Salvo, having discovered that his latest tour guide Natasha loves all things African, starts sporting African paraphernalia to impress her. His hopes are buoyed when Natasha tells him that she hasn't heard from her wonderful boyfriend Arturo. In the meantime, their old friend Sonia arrives in Turin with her American boyfriend Peter. Sonia confides to Valentino that she's about to break up with Peter and has realized that she loves Salvo. Things start to get complicated when Valentino and Natasha turn to each other for comfort from their respective breakups. Gisella observes them dancing up a storm, feels jealous, and starts to regret having broken up with Valentino. Things come to a head at the wedding of Orazio, another member of the curling team Salvo and Valentino belong to. Misunderstandings abound, stoked by rapidly escalating gossip about Gisella and Salvo. Natasha shows up and discovers "Arturo" is the groom Orazio, and she and the bride thrash him together. In the middle of the tumult, Valentino and Gisella get back together and Salvo and Sonia find love.

Cast

* Salvatore Ficarra as Salvo *

Valentino Picone Salvatore Ficarra (born 27 May 1971, in Palermo) and Valentino Picone (born 23 March 1971, in Palermo) are an Italian comedy duo who work on stage, films, television and books as Ficarra e Picone. Life and career They started in 1993 along ...

as Valentino * Ambra Angiolini as Gisella *

Diane Fleri Diane Fleri (born 13 July 1983), is a French-born Italian actress. Early life Fleri was born in Quimper, Brittany, France, to an Italian father, Marino Fleri, a diplomat of Estonian and Maltese origins, and a French mother of Vietnamese origin ...

as Sonia *

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as Natasha *

David Furr David Furr is an American theatre, film, and television actor. He received a Tony Award nomination for his role in Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of ''Noises Off ''Noises Off'' is a 1982 play by the English playwright Michael ...

as Peter * Giovanni Esposito as Orazio/Arturo * Sal Borgese as Orazio's Father *Rossella Leone as Angela *Antonio Rucco as Angela's Father *Clelia Piscitello as Angela's Mother *Thierno Thiam as the Tattooist

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* 2011 films 2010s buddy comedy films Films set in Turin Italian buddy comedy films 2010s Italian-language films Films directed by Ficarra e Picone 2010s Italian films {{2010s-Italy-comedy-film-stub

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