Alessandro Siani’s film Through Friendship, is aired tonight on Saturday, January 31, 2026 on Rai Movie after the exit to the Valentine’s room in 2023. Distributed by 01 Distribution, it is directed and screened by Siani himself and produced by Italian International Film with Rai Cinema. Siani makes Siani, writes and directs Siani, the result is Siani. If you like the character, absolutely for you.
Tramite amicizia, una storia così così
Lorenzo is a very clever entrepreneur and he is the center of the plot of Through friendship. He understood that, in order to have a successful agency, he must monetize on the desperate need for friendship of people. In a nutshell, it makes you pay to befriend him, to advise him that clothes buy, how to pull punches and how to overcome a bad amorous break. All regular, eh, by contract. Among his clients: a very rich and insecure gift, a hopeful old man, a boxer and a boy with suicidal tendencies.
Not even to say, Lorenzo also has a vision of cynical and bitter humanity, he considers himself a “single of character”. She lives with her aunt and cousin’s family. Precisely the cousin is risking losing his job because his boss, a depressed entrepreneur, wants to sell the family business. The solution is clear in front of everyone’s eyes: Lorenzo must become his friend and prevent the sale.
The shrewd and cynical protagonist, however, also has a conscience, and initially does not feel comfortable offering his services to an unconscious person. He’s finally convinced. In the game, Maya, a girl with no goals but very clever and very beautiful, who lives with expedients and who to scratch some money on the right and misses would almost everything. Things happen, situations develop. How will it end?
Siani il cerchiobottista e la morale di Tramite Amicizia
We all know how it will end. In the predictable manner in which this kind of comedy ends. All right. The real problem is that sometimes, when comedians decide to want to make movies, more than feature films end up looking like a set of sketches glued to each other that follow more or less the same background story. Friendship is no exception. The script makes water from all sides, the jokes are trivial, already heard. Siani fills everything with its totalizing presence. It is a film made to make it shine, but it also fails in this.
The result is a story from rhetorical morals and horobottista, which puts in the mix everything (from body shaming to poliamore passing through the income of citizenship, the workers-entrepreneurs struggle and the incompetent Carabinieri, but because), that saves everyone and that is totally lost in banality. A story bound by reality both from the perspective of characters and from the point of view of languages. Lorenzo and Maya, respectively Siani and Matilde Gioli, have nothing in common apart from the cunning and certainly do not shine for chemistry. Positive point Max Tortora, in formissima and at times also fun. Yay.
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Il cast
Alessandro Siani is Lorenzo, a cynical and contemptuous entrepreneur who bases his career on his ability to please people and always tell him what they want to hear. Matilde Gioli is Maya, a fraudulent rebel looking for someone who systems her to life without making her work. Max Tortora is Alberto, a sad entrepreneur who wants to sell everything and who does not see the light at the end of the tunnel. Maria Di Biase is Filomena, a pastry cousin who wants to help Lorenzo.
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Tramite amicizia in streaming
The film is live streaming on RaiPlay in addition to it is for hire and or purchase on A Amazon Video, Rakuten TV, Apple TV Store.
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