When your muse, your agent, and your critic all share one bed—who's really sculpting whom?
Adrian is a talented young sculptor eager to assert himself in the art world. His first exhibition in the Capital catches Gloria's eye. She's an art student looking for "her" artist. Between the two something's born and soon she becomes Adrian's lover and muse, as well as his agent. But someone else also falls in love with Adrian's work: Lulli, an internationally-renowned art critic – and also Gloria's guardian and lover before Adrian's arrival.
Acting
Scamarcio's hungry young artist energy is delicious.
Direction
Rubini directs himself as the pathetic predatory critic.
Director
Sergio Rubini
Sergio Rubini
Lulli
Riccardo Scamarcio
Adrian
Vittoria Puccini
Gloria
Richard Sammel
Svensson
Paola Barale
Manuela
Emanuele Salce
Righi
Giancarlo Ratti
Nicola
Anna Orso
Giorgio Colangeli
Cop
Claudia Giannotti
Alexandra Prusa
Emma Bauer
Ivan Bacchi
Art dealer
Joe Capalbo
Council member
Paco Reconti
Competing artist
Sara D'Amario
Iolanda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rubini cast himself as the aging critic Lulli after originally writing the role for another actor—reportedly deciding no one could capture the character's pathetic grandeur quite like himself.
The film satirizes Italy's 'critic-as-gatekeeper' culture of the 2000s, where a handful of newspaper writers could make or break emerging artists—Rubini himself came from that theater world and clearly had scores to settle.
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