''You Can't Save Yourself Alone'' ( it, Nessuno si salva da solo) is a 2015 Italian romantic drama film directed by
Sergio Castellitto
Sergio Castellitto (born 18 August 1953) is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter.
Biography
Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome in 1953, to parents from Molise and Abruzzo, Southern Italy. After graduating from the Silvio D'Amico Nat ...
. It is based on a novel with the same name written by
Margaret Mazzantini. The film received three nominations at the 2015
David di Donatello Awards
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, for best actor, best actress and best original song ("'Ellis").
Plot
Gaetano and Delia are a separate couple who find themselves at a restaurant table. With apparent disinterest in each other, they have to discuss the summer holidays of their children Cosmo and Nico, who live with Delia, while Gaetano is staying in a residence.
During the discussion, the two experience several flashbacks that make them understand their past.
The two had met when they were very young: the birth of the children, the first problems, also linked to the conflicting relationships of Delia with her mother and Gaetano with her father, some events that traumatize the children, the voluntary abortion of the third child. At the moment of separation Delia is about to fall into anorexia and her frustration falls on Cosmo, while Gaetano, overwhelmed by too much work, does not take care of the children sufficiently.
When dinner is about to end, two elderly people, Vito and Lea, who have overheard the conversation between Delia and Gaetano, approach. The elderly still seem very much in love and their mutual respect "is tangible". Vito says he is ill with cancer and asks the two young people to pray for him, explaining to them that "nobody saves himself alone".
Cast
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Riccardo Scamarcio
Riccardo Dario Scamarcio (; born 13 November 1979) is an Italian actor and film producer.
Life and career
Scamarcio was born in Trani, Apulia, the son of Irene Petrafesa, a painter, and Emilio Scamarcio.
He went to train as an actor at the S ...
as Gaetano
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Jasmine Trinca as Delia
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Roberto Vecchioni
Roberto Vecchioni (born 25 June 1943) is an Italian singer-songwriter, singer-lyricist, lyricist, teacher and writer.
Biography
Vecchioni was born in Carate Brianza, Province of Monza and Brianza, to a Neapolitan family . In 1968 he graduat ...
as Vito
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Ángela Molina
Ángela Molina Tejedor (born 5 October 1955) is a Spanish actress. Aside from her performances in Spanish films, she has starred in multiple international productions, particularly in a number of Italian films and television series.
Family
Mol ...
as Lea
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Anna Galiena
Anna Galiena (born 22 December 1954) is an Italian actress, best known to English-speaking audiences for her appearances in '' Le Mari de la coiffeuse'', '' Jamón, jamón'', '' Being Human'' and ''Senso '45''.
Movie career
In her youth, Galie ...
as Viola
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Eliana Miglio
Eliana Assyrian/Akkadian, אֱלִיעָנָה (Hebrew), Ηλιάνα (Greek), إليانا (Arabic), is a female given name found with that spelling in Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Origin & meaning
Many sources derive it from via He ...
as Serena
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Marina Rocco
A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : ''marina'', "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.
A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ship ...
as Matilde
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Massimo Bonetti
Massimo Bonetti (born 28 March 1951) is an Italian actor and director.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Bonetti after several years as character actor debuted in a leading role in 1981, in Aurelio Chiesa's ''Bim Bum Bam''. Then, he obtained role ...
as Luigi
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Massimo Ciavarro as Fulvio
Reception
''You Can't Save Yourself Alone'' has an approval rating of 80% on
review aggregator
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website
Rotten Tomatoes
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, based on 5 reviews, and an average rating of 8/10.
[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/you_cant_save_yourself_alone]
See also
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List of Italian films of 2015
References
External links
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2015 films
2015 romantic drama films
Films directed by Sergio Castellitto
Italian romantic drama films
2010s Italian films
2010s Italian-language films
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