CINEGELATO 2025
Thursday July 17th | 6:30pm
Tutto quello che vuoi (Friends by Chance)
Dir: Francesco Bruni
Italy, 2017, 106 min
With Giuliano Montaldo, Andrea Carpenzano, Arturo Bruni
In Italian with English subtitles
Alessandro, twenty-two, is an uneducated and troubled man from Trastevere; Giorgio, eighty-five, is a forgotten poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. The neurodegenerative disease slowly erases everything life has given him—his emotions, his memories—even changing his behavior, which can seem bizarre. The two live a few steps from each other, but have never met, until Alessandro is forced to take a job chaperoning the elegant gentleman on afternoon strolls. One day, the old poet invites the boy and his friends to his house for a game of cards: in that moment, confused memories of a treasure he hid many years before resurface. Thus, the boys’ wild life turns into a great adventure in search of a mysterious treasure. Together, they set off on a long journey filled with important lessons about life…