If by chance Casomai
Plot
Tommaso and Stefania meet, fall in love, get married, have a child. They have a sincere love, passionate, healthy. Around them is a world of friends, relatives, acquaintances who are actively part of their lives. But how far will this intense involvement go, insinuating into their emotional world and conditioning it? Frustrations mount at work, the money is never enough, and social isolation comes unexpected. Stefania and Tommaso gradually become a couple like many others: they fight without knowing why, they no longer communicate. But hope is still alive though buried deep down: when love is no longer felt on the surface, it doesn’t mean it no longer exists. Often it’s just been suffocated, buried among the many difficulties in life that have nothing to do with love.
Review
Go see ‘If by Chance’ by Alessandro D’Alatri, a film that begins with the indisputable line between public and private lives and discusses, with great intelligence, the things that we closely relate to. Without great declarations; indeed with a sobriety that begins with the title – apparently plain but perfect. ‘If by Chance’ is in fact the word that best fits our culture, the culture of the reversibility of choices, refusal to commit, where our actions are full of “there’s always a chance” of turning back.
Roberto Nepoti La Repubblica
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