After the four seasons of Vita da Carlo, Verdone finally returned to the direction of a film. School of Seduction will not go out to the cinema but only on Paramount+ from 1 April because it is part of the overall agreement signed during the pandemic, between Filmauro and Paramount and which included the 3 seasons of the series and, indeed, a film.
School of Seduction is a film that works, thanks to the choral cast and a strangely fluid writing compared to the TV series and the latest Verdone films. The research of the gag is not pursued in a forced but connaturated way to the elements of the plot, there is no force on those that are the characteristics of the verdonian character but a good balance between the parts and the various characters. There are undoubtedly some limits in the general construction of the whole story, but the general impression is that if it had been used as a subject for a TV series built on several seasons, it would have been decidedly more successful than the farraginous Vita da Carlo, whose only merit was probably to bring Lucio Corsi out.
At the heart of the story there are six characters that for different reasons turn to a 16-year-old guru (played by Karla Sofia Gascon) who runs a Seduction School promising to help rediscover love. There is the single professor who lives with the obsessive mother (played by Lino Guanciale), there is the nurse wife who would like to win back the distracted husband (Vittoria Puccini), there is then the young influencer (Beatrice Arnera) who participated in the game, the insecure boy (Romano Reggiani), there is also the owner of a bookcase (Euridice Arnera).
Following the cheap indications of the guru, the group more than finding love ends up finding friendship. All of them were basic people both materially and psychologically, unable to establish or maintain not so much new loving relationships as simply friendship. There is a phase of one’s life in which for more or less voluntary reasons some types of people end up being alone, looking for a small appellate to cling to continue to exist. The only way out of this condition is to try to trust others, to overcome prejudices and judgments by embracing each other with their own defects and insecurity.
Good alchemy inside the cast, Lino Guanciale stands out on others for a natural propensity to lightness and to make laugh and smile, but also an innate ability to give tenderness to the characters. Romano Reggiani is a surprise, Euridice Axen and Vittoria Puccini the certainties on which to rely despite the characters did not give much beyond constructions and developments a little already seen and predictable. Beatrice Arnera probably didn’t even believe in the role of the young influencer. To Carlo Verdone obviously you can say very little, he laughs doing his and knows how to be generous with others.
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