(''Damned the Day I Met You'') is a 1992 Italian

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film directed by

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. The film won five David di Donatello Awards, for best screenplay, best actor, best cinematography, best editing and best supporting actress (

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). For her performance

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won the

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for best actress.

Plot

Bernardo, a Roman music journalist living in Milan, is dumped by his girlfriend (almost fiancé), and, extremely depressed, begins working with a therapist, Prof. Altieri. His career as a rock music critic begins to decline, and he cannot find a way to publish a book on the life secrets of Jimi Hendrix. In the meantime, he meets the neurotic Camilla, who is both a patient and a wannabe lover of Altieri's, with whom she's obsessed. From that point on, Camilla disrupts Bernardo's life, but becomes his best friend. After a huge fight, the two lose contact. They separately travel to

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, where Camilla is a theatre actress and Bernardo is working on Hendrix's biography, interviewing people who might have known the rock star. They meet again, apologizing to one another, only to have their personal and professional lives disrupted again. One night, at Land's End in Cornwall, Bernardo and Camilla get intimately close, enraging Camilla's latest boyfriend (her theatre production's director), with whom she was not happy anyway. Camilla secretly sells a precious ring to fund Bernardo's interview with an important source for his book. Later on though, she messes up the recording of the interview... The ending is very romantic, unlike the ending of most of Verdone's movies.

Cast

as Bernardo Arbusti *

as Camilla Landolfi *

as Adriana * Giancarlo Dettori as Attilio De Sorges * Stefania Casini as Clari *Renato Pareti as Loris *Dario Casalini as Flavio *Alexis Meneloff as Professor Ludwig Altieri * Count Prince Miller as Catfish *

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as Camilla's mother *

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as Bernardo's mother *Ernesto Martini as Bernardo's father * Richard Benson as himself

Reception

In its second week of release, the film reached number one at the Italian box office and remained there for two weeks. It was the fourth highest-grossing Italian film in Italy for the year with a gross of $6.4 million and the eleventh overall.

Awards

References

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1992 films Italian romantic comedy films Films directed by Carlo Verdone 1992 romantic comedy films Films set in Milan Films set in London Films set in Cornwall 1990s Italian-language films 1990s Italian films {{1990s-romantic-comedy-film-stub